By David Pountain Directed by Jake Mahaffy Venice Film Festival review In the Old Testament’s Book of Job, the consistently devout eponymous man, after suffering a horrendous series of undeserved misfortunes, is forced to accept that the […]
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By David Pountain Directed by Florin Serban Toronto International Film Festival review Cinema today would be in a better state if more filmmakers went into their projects with the same attentive curiosity that Florin Serban […]
By David Pountain Directed by Bentley Dean and Martin Butler Venice Film Festival review Tanna is a small island located in the South Pacific province of Vanuatu. It is home to the Yakel tribe, one […]
By David Pountain With its nuanced characterisations and sensitive, intellectually honest depictions of youth, education, migrant work and domestic abuse, Vittorio Moroni’s If I Close My Eyes I’m Not Here succeeds on an intimately human […]
By David Pountain From the resonant absurdity of The Wayward Cloud to the most penetrating finale of the year in Stray Dogs, Chen Shiang-chyi has an outstanding record of performing in profound, socially relevant works […]
by David Pountain Directed by Roberto Minervini There was once a time where it was hard to find a cinematic vision of the American rural south that wasn’t highly romanticised. These days the challenge is […]