By David Pountain An intricate and attentive paralleling of two ostensibly disparate worlds, Florin Serban’s Romanian drama Box is a work of unusual precision and refreshing originality. Tracking the day-to-day lives of a young boxer and a married older […]
By David Pountain From the strained central relationship of twin drama Give Me Your Hand to the outlandish personal journey of short film Hollywood by Accident (aka Hollywood malgré lui), French director Pascal-Alex Vincent has made […]
By David Pountain Directed by Ella Manzheeva Warsaw Film Festival review Ella Manzheeva’s The Gulls is a directorial debut of unusual stylistic confidence. With sparing use of dialogue and low-key performances, the film expresses itself largely through […]
By David Pountain Directed by Alexander Kott Gijón International Film Festival review Alexander Kott’s wordless Test may technically be a period film – inspired by the Soviet Union’s nuclear bomb test in the Kazakh region of […]
By David Pountain Directed by Matias Meyer Montreal Nouveau Cinema Film Festival review The developmentally stunted title character of Yo is a volatile individual prone to loud emotional outbursts that the audience is almost never a […]
By David Pountain Directed by Neto Villalobos All About the Feathers, a sweet and Sisyphean comedy from Neto Villalobos, operates by the premise that there’s little in life funnier than watching awkward everyday people simply being their […]
