Isobel Yeap reviews Kazuyoshi Kumakiri’s MY MAN, a disappointingly heavy-handed tale of a Lolita-esque relationship between a schoolgirl and her adopted father.
The Equalizer
The latest in the string of Taken knock-offs, THE EQUALISER’s technical mediocrity is made all the worse through its dubious morality
Stay Away From Me
STAI LONTANA DA ME epitomises everything you hate about Rom-coms.
Romeo & Juliet
The Julian Fellowes-penned adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic is a fairly atrocious rendition, showcasing profound ignorance and disrepect towards the original text.
The Infinite Man
Bafflingly a ‘festival favourite’, Hugh Sullivan’s faux-clever THE INFINITE MAN is a dull journey through love and regret, or perhaps a regrettable journey through love and dull characterisation.
Miraculum
Like the plane crash at its epicenter, Daniel Grou’s Miraculum is an inexplicable tragedy, the kind of film you watch mouth agape, wondering how it was allowed to happen.
Ping Pong Summer
Failing to deliver on its promise as a comedy, Ping Pong Summer is an aggressively forgettable film, for serious 80s diehards only.
Backwater
Despite fleeting entrancements of atmospheric insularity BACKWATER is an overall repugnant film, one which recklessly embraces sexual violence, that features a plot and script that undercut the latent potential of the characters.
For Those Who Can Tell No Tales
More Western solipsism that any attempt to do justice to the atrocities in question, For Those Who Can Tell No Tales, above all, is morally abhorrent because of one simple insinuation – that the question “How could people be so cruel?”, can only be answered with “elsewhere”.
Miss Violence
Completely repugnant and ploddingly dull, writer/director Alexandros Avranas bastardises the Greek New Wave movement in a film more fixated with overcooked moral shocks than innovative or interesting filmmaking.