Todd Stephens, Udo Kier and Linda Evans on Swan Song Rafaela Sales Ross March 28, 2021 Features, Interview, One Off In the realm of great storylines, “A formerly flamboyant hairdresser takes a long walk across a small town to style a dead woman's hair” certainly hits the jackpot. Throw in two contrasting legends in the...
Our Father – SXSW 2021 Review Rafaela Sales Ross March 19, 2021 Reviews At the cusp of leaving her job and moving away to fulfil a long-time dream of going to college, Beta (Baize Busan) receives news her father died by suicide after battling an unnamed disease. Upon getting the...
Cusp – Sundance Film Festival 2021 Review Rafaela Sales Ross February 2, 2021 Reviews “There is no normal in teenage years” utters a young girl as the sun goes down, her friends carrying cans of beer and chatting from the top of old, beaten trucks. It is a fitting observation to set the...
Me and the Cult Leader – Sheffield Doc/Fest 2020 Review Sophie Maxwell June 27, 2020 Reviews In 1995, commuters in Tokyo were deliberately exposed to a deadly gas called sarin in an act of domestic terrorism. Twelve people were killed and over a thousand injured. Me and the Cult Leader: A Modern...
Sisters With Transistors – Sheffield Doc/Fest 2020 Review Sophie Maxwell June 17, 2020 Reviews Lisa Rovner explores women’s work in electronic music in her feature documentary debut Sisters With Transistors. The film is told through a combination of edited archival footage and voiceover, featuring...
Sunset – Venice 2018 Review Tom Bond September 7, 2018 Reviews László Nemes’ previous film, Son of Saul, was a harrowing and visceral fever dream, dragging the viewer through the charnel house of a concentration camp in Nazi Germany. Much of its power came from...
Dopo La Guerra – Cannes 2017 Review Tom Bond May 23, 2017 Reviews Dopo La Guerra tells the half-true story of a group of Italian far-left political terrorists, whose amnesty to live in France was rescinded in 2002. Annarita Zambrano’s tense film combines thriller and...
Jeune Femme – Cannes 2017 Review Tom Bond May 23, 2017 Reviews Roaring down the trail blazed by the likes of Lena Dunham’s Girls, Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag and Gillian Robespierre’s Obvious Child, Jeune Femme is the most memorable and entertaining film of the...
The Killing Of A Sacred Deer – Cannes 2017 Review Tom Bond May 22, 2017 Reviews If you ever get invited to a Cannes beach party, never play "Would You Rather… ?" with Yorgos Lanthimos. The Greek writer-director has a perverse mind quite unlike anyone else working today, with previous...
Le Venerable W. – Cannes 2017 Review Tom Bond May 20, 2017 Reviews Extreme Buddhism might sound like the brainstorm of a BBC Three producer, but in Barbet Schroeder’s ferocious documentary it’s about as far from a laughing matter as you could imagine. Despite their serene...
Desiree Akhavan Talks Appropriate Behaviour, Girls and Directing Yourself Cameron Ward March 8, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Interview Desiree Akhavan's feature debut, Appropriate Behaviour, follows Shirin (Akhavan), a bisexual Persian American woman in Brooklyn struggling to rebuild her life after breaking up with her lesbian...
Taxi – Berlinale 2015 Review Nick Evan-Cook February 6, 2015 Reviews Jafar Panahi writes, directs and stars in this charming and humorous display of the eccentric spirit of Iranian society. Ostensibly a hidden camera documentary, a large part of the film's appeal lies in...
The One I Love – Sundance London Review Christopher Preston April 23, 2014 Reviews The One I Love is a crumpled-up love letter being tumble-dried inside one of the drums of The Twilight Zone. Charlie McDowell manages to crack open a window and pump a fresh breeze into a genre bloated with...
Drunktown’s Finest – Sundance London Review Christopher Preston April 22, 2014 Reviews Drunktown’s Finest is Sydney Freeland’s directorial debut on a feature - and it shows. This film, which combines the increasingly interwoven stories of three young Native Americans, is never quite able to...