A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
British Films, North American Films
Keith and David Lynch, “Zero” (2019) In a post-apocalyptic world, when robots and humans have fought each other almost to the death in a long drawn-out…
Chloe Okuno, “Slut” (2014) Set in the 1970s, this cheesy morality tale is a meeting of Little Red Riding Hood and Southern US small-town Gothica in…
Aly Migliori, “After Her” (2018) A young man, Callum (Christopher Dylan White), goes in search of a young woman, Hayley (Natalia Dyer), five years after she…
Pedro Almodovar, “Pain and Glory” (2019) A film investigating how creation can be inspired by personal memories and suffering, “Pain and Glory” is a fiction biographical…
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, “Farming” (2018) “Farming” is a fictional biographical drama based on actor / director Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s childhood growing up in Britain as a foster child…
French and French-language Films
Mohammad Babakoohi, Jakob Bednarz, Benjamin Berrebi, Diego Cristofano, Théo Noble, Karlo Pavicic-Ravlic, Marthinus van Rooyen, “Dogs” (2019) One of the longer films in the Gobelins 2019…
French and French-language Films
Pierre-Marie Adnet, Jean-Luc Dessertaine, Guillaume Pochez, Tristan Poulain, Vincent Rouziere, Alessandro Vergonnier, “Souffle-court” (2018) In this 5-minute short film, a young teenage supercross rider Tom is…
French and French-language Films
Fabien Corre, Kelsi Phung, “Les lèvres gercées” (2018) In just five minutes, within the setting of a small kitchen and with just two characters – a…
French and French-language Films
Alix Arrault, Martin Hermane, Samuel Klughertz, Jules Rigolle, “Parfum Fraise” (2017) You can renounce a lifetime of crime and violence, and try to live a quiet…
Chinese and Chinese-language Films, North American Films
Lulu Wang, “The Farewell” (2019) As a character study of an individual torn between her parents’ Chinese culture and the Western culture she has grown up…