Phoebe Chen speaks with filmmaker Luca Guadagnino about the immediacy of desire, body language, and the power of aesthetics in his latest, CALL ME BY YOUR NAME.
The Butterfly Tree
Priscilla Cameron’s debut feature is every bit as adolescent and as troubled as its protagonist, writes Greer Forrester.
Golden Exits
Alex Ross Perry’s fruitful return to a romanticised celluloid Brooklyn finds tension in a group of suburbanites caught in tangled webs of familial obligation, writes Dominic Ellis.
The Blood of the Covenant: Fringe Politics in A Gray State and The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On
Kai Perrignon writes on the kinship shared by Kenzo Okuzaki and David Crowley, published in partnership with Melbourne International Film Festival’s Critics Campus program.