We review OBVIOUS CHILD, a rare festival rom-com that’s funny, unique and refreshingly honest.
A Hard Day
A Hard Day is often hysterically funny and tense, and though it loses steam in its second half, it is still a worthy addition to the canon of modern Korean thrillers.
Jauja
Lisandro Alonso’s Jauja, which tells the story of a military captain’s struggle through the Patagonian wilderness to find his daughter, is a fascinating new departure for the director.
Bloody Beans
BLOODY BEANS is an experimental film exploration of the French-Algerian conflict,an interesting but poorly executed project screening at Melbourne International Film Festival.
Trespassing Bergman
Aside from some fun, idiosyncratic moments from the directors involved – Lars von Trier in particular – TRESPASSING BERGMAN doesn’t do its legendary subject justice.
Force Majeure
FORCE MAJEURE is an interesting angle on a relationship drama that doesn’t have the insight or character depth to really succeed
The Search for Weng Weng
THE SEARCH FOR WENG WENG is a fascinating journey into Filipino film culture to find out the true story behind the larger-than-life cult star Weng Weng
What Now? Remind Me
Joaquim Pinto’s What Now? Remind Me displays a refreshing antidote to filmic solipsism; a personal documentary that reveals a willingness to join the personal with the historical, and life to cinema.
Hard to Be a God
HARD TO BE A GOD is a masterwork; a difficult, punishing but rewarding film that proves for an incredible and novel cinema experience.
The Dirties
Matt Johnson’s THE DIRTIES, playing at both Possible Worlds Film Festival and Melbourne International Film Festival, is an excellent film, riveting and thought-provoking and in parts very funny.