We Are All Introverts
Regardless of the answer, “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” can no doubt be called Kaufman’s solipsistic fantasy. Although we do not know who is looking, we know that this is a lonely, introverted person (…)
WeAreOne: Temples of Consumption
“Beautiful Things” by Giorgio Ferrero and Federico Biasina cannot be watched like a regular movie. One participates in it – as in a ritual, devout contemplation, or trance with art.
There Is Evil
Rasoulof tries to convince the viewers of one’s causative agency, the sense of making morally difficult decisions, and the need to fight despotism…
Her Docs: Many Faces, Single Face
Woman is only seemingly democratic when it comes to presenting femininity. The languages (with an emphasis on French) of developed countries dominate the movie – the countries of Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Central America, the Arabian Peninsula and a large part of Africa have been almost completely omitted
White, White Day – White, White Masculinity
Pálmason’s work can be treated as a deconstruction of traditionally understood masculinity, and the struggle of the main character as part of the process of breaking this pattern.
19. IFF Watch Docs – Where They Eat Knödels
In “The Border Fence” one can see better than anywhere else, how strongly the natural, as it seems, desire to help people who lost home clashes with subcutaneous fear of the Other fueled by the media and regulated by law…
Splat!FilmFest – The Space in Technicolor
“Blood Machines” – are exactly what they meant to be. This aesthetics – musical space opera with phenomenal synthwave rhythms composed by Carpenter Brut – can be totally bought.
Splat!FilmFest – coming-of-age, capitalism and death
“The Father’s Shadow” it is not a typical coming-of-age story in which one should expect a cheerful solution to problems or at least an effective transition through the process of growing up. Gabriela Amaral creates a gloomy film, and the dark tension is not only due to the proximity of death…
Border places – “The Lighthouse” review
Eggers’ heroes go to border places where none of the worlds has full influence, but constantly fights and clashes with the other side. These are places where myths, oral traditions, beliefs and stories live.
XIII. Sputnik: Crime, Punishment and Smartphones
The young philology student, Ilja, is – without any special reason, except for pure malice – set up by the young agent of the drug department, Piotr, who is acting under cover. Ilja goes to prison for seven long years.
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