A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Isaac G G Nabwana, “Attack on Nyege Nyege Island” (2016) The tiny but already globally famous Ugandan film industry (known as Ugawood, taking after the manner…
Jude Chun, “The Time Agent” (2016) In its own unassuming way, “The Time Agent” is a deconstruction of a once common style of narrative in genres…
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, “Uncle Boonmee who can recall his past lives” (2010) The last days of a farmer dying from kidney disease on his farm in a…
French and French-language Films
Jules Janaud and Fabrice le Nezet, “Animal” (2017) In the not too distant future, in a post-industrial world, communities living on the margins of society will…
Anthony Ferraro, “Aeranger” (2019) A twelve-minute film about an alien crash-landing somewhere in North America thousands of years ago when mammoths were still roaming the continent…
French and French-language Films
Mriganka Bhuyan, Romain Couderette, Eunbyeol Ko, Sean Lewis, Milan Salmona, Wenkai Wang, “Royal Madness” (2019) Not one of the better offerings from the 2019 Gobelins graduation…
Andre LeBlanc, “They Watch” (2016) In the near future, a mother and her teenage son living in small-town America are under siege from an oppressive police-state…
French and French-language Films
Jules Bourges, Jocelyn Charles, Nathan Harbonn Viaud, Pierre Rougemont,”Déjeuner sur l’herbe” (2019) A droll character study of a scientist called Etienne initially dedicated to pursuing truth…
Lindsay Anderson, “O Lucky Man!” (1973) A satirical allegory that exposes life in Western capitalist society and the values and beliefs needed to survive successfully in…
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…