Drift review – attempts to shock without the aspect of surprise
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by David Jenkins
9m ago
This new film by Singaporean filmmaker Anthony Chen, his first in the English language, probes the question of the unseen and, often, unimaginable traumas suffered by refugees who are trying to eke out an existence in sunny new climes. Cynthia Erivo’s Jacqueline was once part of the Liberian upper classes and managed to study in London, but has found herself destitute in a quiet Greek resort town and a pale shadow of the former self we see in flashbacks. She is someone who seems like she is permanently on the verge of tears, and despite attempts to lay low and deal with her issues in solitud ..read more
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Silver Haze review – messy in a lifelike, truthful way
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by David Jenkins
19h ago
Two minutes into Dutch filmmaker Sacha Polak’s fourth feature, Silver Haze, and the film that instantly springs to mind is Gary Oldman’s Nil By Mouth: the fondly recreated working-class milieu of a Dagenham housing estate; the overlapping dialogue from a multi-directional front-room confab; the sudden bursts of violent invective and the sense that the familial harmony we’re witnessing in this moment will be short-lived. The film stars Vicky Knight, extraordinary as the brooding, disconsolate day nurse, caring for her mentally ill mother and on a mission to track down her estranged father in ..read more
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Disco Boy review – a bold yet banal character study
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by Marina Ashioti
19h ago
With Franz Rogowski having established himself as one of the most singular and distinctive European acting talents gracing the silver screen today, and following his highly-lauded performance in Ira Sachs’ Passages, it’s no surprise that audience anticipation levels would be high at the prospect of another Rogowski-led drama. In Giacomo Abbruzzese’s feature debut, Rogowski plays Aleksei, a young Belarusian who, along with his “comrade in misfortune”, Mikhail (Michał Balicki) seeks a new life in France, where he finds himself trapped in a Faustian bargain. Clinging to the promise of a French ..read more
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Queer Times: How Thessaloniki International Doc Festival are celebrating LGBTQ+ Cinema
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by Christina Newland
2d ago
In the sprawling port city of Thessaloniki, with its combination of Byzantine architecture dating back centuries, and walls bedecked in vivid graffiti art, there’s an omnipresent poster of two charcoal-sketched figures in an embrace. The artwork for the 26th annual Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival loomed large around the city as the fest opened its doors for a feast of nonfiction films from around the world. Run by the same organisers as the November edition of the festival that focuses on features, held in the second-largest city in Greece, it welcomes artists, students and f ..read more
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Opus review – gorgeous document of a supreme artist
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by Xuanlin Tham
2d ago
The incredible composer, pianist, and environmental activist Ryuichi Sakamoto passed away earlier this year, on 28 March, 2023. Filmed over a week in September 2022, Sakamoto recorded a few songs a day at NHK 509 in Japan – a studio long beloved by the composer – straining against his ill health. The result is Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus, a stunning concert film directed by his son, Neo Sora, and captured in contemplative black-and-white by cinematographer Bill Kirstein. It was to be Sakamoto’s last performance. For what he knew might be his swansong, Sakamoto selected 20 pieces spanning his ill ..read more
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The Sweet East review – packed with salty goodness
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by David Jenkins
2d ago
This succulent, double helping of cine-scrapple lovingly combines the mechanically-reclaimed morsels of a culture in ideological free-fall into a film which offers a panoply of flavours and textures that will be unique to many diners. The semi-opaque mirror into which a crooked but almost-just-workable world is reflected is Talia Ryder’s apathetic highschool-age wandering waif, Lillian, who we join as she breaks away from class trip to America’s seat of power in Washington DC. A tour-guide states that the White House was built facing west so the commander in chief is best able oversee the sp ..read more
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Immaculate review – get thee to a different nunnery
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by Hannah Strong
6d ago
As someone who spent 14 years attending Catholic school, I sometimes think nuns get a bit of a bad rap. The Irish sisters that popped up every so often to teach us hymns were uniformly lovely and benevolent. Nothing like the malevolent convent in Rivette’s The Nun, or the repressed Congregation of The Servants of Mary in Black Narcissus. But I do understand the appeal of corrupted Christ Brides which fuelled the entire nunsploitation genre – it’s a bit more titillating than The Sound of Music, and it’s not as if the Catholic church is running low on skeletons in their cloisters to draw from ..read more
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Under the Cover: Petra Eriksson
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by LWLies
6d ago
In the first of a new series, we’re going to be shining a spotlight on the amazing illustrators and artists who help to make Little White Lies one of the best-looking magazines on the shelf. First up, we had a chat with Petra Eriksson who is responsible the cover of our 102nd issue, inspired by Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers. We asked her to paint a portrait of her working life and give some details on how she would approach such a project. LWLies: Paint us a picture of your work space. Do you feel it’s perfect, or do you have plans to enhance it? Eriksson: I have a studio in a big industrial ..read more
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Baltimore review – chilling and expertly constructed
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by David Jenkins
1w ago
Rose Dugdale is a marginal but fascinating figure in the story of The Troubles. She planted her red flag in the annals of history by pulling off the biggest art heist of all time, organised with a view to syphoning the funds made from reselling a stash of paintings to help repatriate a group of incarcerated IRA members. The filmmaking duo Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy have an abiding interest in disguises, alter-egos and the idea of people transmuting into different versions of themselves. Baltimore offers rich terrain on which these concepts can thrive, not least in the idea that Dugdale ..read more
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The Teachers’ Lounge review – a chain-reaction melodrama
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by Isaac Feldberg
1w ago
In ‘Microcosmographia Academia’, his satirical treatise on university politics, Edwardian scholar F.M. Cornford proposed that, “there is only one argument for doing something; the rest are arguments for doing nothing. The argument for doing something is that it is the right thing to do. But then, of course, comes the difficulty of making sure it is right.” Such are the emphatically rhetorical principles, the rules of inaction, that impel İlker Çatak’s Oscar-nominated The Teachers’ Lounge, a drama set in a German secondary school rattled by accusations of theft. For seventh-grade teacher Carl ..read more
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