Fourteen – Berlinale 2019 Review Carmen Paddock February 9, 2019 Reviews People rarely wish to be defined by their teenage years; in his fourth feature film Fourteen, Dan Sallitt continues his exploration of tight-knit relationships with a friendship anchored in a middle-school...
Système K – Berlinale 2019 Review Carmen Paddock February 9, 2019 Reviews Early in Renaud Barret’s documentary, one of his profiled artists observes that the act of living in Kinshasa is creating art in itself. Système K provides a fearless platform through which the street...
The Plagiarists – Berlinale 2019 Review Carmen Paddock February 9, 2019 Reviews If looking for compelling explorations of authorship and the merits of varying artistic mediums, The Plagiarists is not the place to come. Any redeeming qualities are lost under a heavily contrived plot...
Systemsprenger – Berlinale 2019 Review Carmen Paddock February 8, 2019 Reviews In her multi award-winning script, Nora Fingscheidt deals with the unromantic realities of finding foster children a home, creating a film that does not flinch from emotional or physical violence and the...
The Kindness of Strangers – Berlinale 2019 Review Carmen Paddock February 7, 2019 Reviews As befitting its title, the characters with which Lone Scherfig populates The Kindness of Strangers prove the shining emotional heart of the drama. Getting them all together takes some contrivance, not to...