Stories By Nicholas Bell
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Are You Lonesome Tonight? | Review
March 13, 2023Unhappy Together: Shipei Concocts Romantic Neo-noir Director Wen Shipei strikes an oddly satisfying balance between broody...
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Till the End of the Night | 2023 Berlin Film Festival Review
February 24, 2023Night Boos: Hochhäusler Bungles Black Market Crime Thriller Blending fatal romanticism and B-movie genre tropes, it’s...
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The Survival of Kindness | 2023 Berlin Film Festival Review
February 24, 2023Lady in a Cage: de Heer’s Dystopia Explores the Enduring Echoes of Colonialism Dutch-born director Rolf...
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Living Bad (Viver Mal) | 2023 Berlin Film Festival Review
February 23, 2023The Mirror Has Two Faces: Canijo’s Customers Are Always Blight with Inverse Melodrama “Happiness consumes itself...
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Bad Living | 2023 Berlin Film Festival Review
February 22, 2023The Best Exotic Portugal Hotel: Canijo Examines Motherhood as Misanthropy in Masterful Familial Miasma The women...
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20,000 Species of Bees | 2023 Berlin Film Festival Review
February 22, 2023The Secret Life of Bees: Solaguren’s Warm Debut Explores the Communal Dictation of Gender Identity Our...
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Music | 2023 Berlin Film Festival Review
February 22, 2023Oedipus Shrugged: Schanelec Finds Tragedy is the Song That Doesn’t End There’s little use clinging to...
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Le grand chariot (The Plough) | 2023 Berlin Film Festival Review
February 21, 2023Father Knows Best: Garrel’s Family Affair Flounders in Banality Although co-credited to the late, great Jean-Claude...
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Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert | 2023 Berlin Film Festival Review
February 19, 2023Road to Nowhere: Von Trotta Presents the Basics on Bachmann Throughout her career, Margarethe Von Trotta,...
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The Teachers’ Lounge | 2023 Berlin Film Festival Review
February 18, 2023Dangerous Finds: Catak Mines the Impossibility of Idealism in Departmental Dilemma Sometimes maintaining the semblance of...