Ana by Day: exploring identity and the limits of freedom and pursuing one’s dreams
Andrea Jaurrieta, “Ana by Day / Ana de Dia” (2017) You feel vaguely dissatisfied with and trapped by your life as a lawyer studying for a…
A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Andrea Jaurrieta, “Ana by Day / Ana de Dia” (2017) You feel vaguely dissatisfied with and trapped by your life as a lawyer studying for a…
Michael Chaves , “The Curse of La Llorona” (2019) As his full-length movie directorial debut, this horror flick perhaps shows all the faults as well as…
British Films, Eastern European Films
“Abandoned Europe / Road to Ratus” (Bald and Bankrupt, April 2019) “Could be awesome, could be shit” … well, going to Ratus couldn’t be any worse…
British Films, Eastern European Films
“Nobody Visits This Country … Find Out Why” (Bald and Bankrupt, April 2019) Bald and Bankrupt is the nom de plume of an English traveller who…
German and German-language Films
Sarah Vianney, “Botswana’s Heavy Metal Queens” (2018) Despite the title, the heavy metal queens of Botswana featured in this Deutsche Welle documentary aren’t musicians and there’s…
British Films, French and French-language Films
Rupert Everett, “The Happy Prince” (2018) A labour of love, of much research over the years on the life and work of Irish-British writer Oscar Wilde,…
Chinese and Chinese-language Films
Tsai Ming-liang, “The Hole / Dong” (1998) Its theme of yearning for connection and hope in a dystopian urban environment of the near future, where an…
Kay Hannahan, “Altimir” (2016) Since 1989 when they left the sphere of Soviet political / economic / cultural influence, and particularly since 2004 when they joined…
Japanese Films, Russian and Soviet Films
Artyom Somov, “Dying Alone: Kodokushi, Japan’s epidemic of isolation through the eyes of a ‘lonely death’ cleaner” (RT.com, March 2019) Since 1945, the increasing Westernisation of…
French and French-language Films, Multi-media Presentations
Jean-Luc Godard, “The Image Book / Le Livre d’Image” (2018) At 84 minutes, in no way is this a long film, yet it’s far more demanding…