Tag: 2019 Berlin International Film Festival
God Exists, Her Name is Petrunya | Review
Cross to Bear: Mitevska’s Playful Yet Potent Critique of the Heteropatriarchy
Disarming thanks to its charming tone, which could mistakenly be defined as slight, Macedonian...
I Was at Home, But…. | Review
The Play’s the Thing: Schanelec Shines with Striking Dynamic on Artifice vs. Authenticity
Words pour out of us, as the main character vocalizes in one...
Mr. Jones | Review
Truth Be Told: Holland Revisits the Horror of the Holodomor
Polish director Agnieszka Holland returns to a subject matter favored in her most memorable offerings—lost...
Driveways | Review
This Small Town: Ahn Aims for the Heart in Soulful Suburban Drama
Death acts as impetus in cinema, and in some cases characters must deal...
The Kindness of Strangers | Review
Strife Itself: Scherfig Delivers Major Misfire with Manhattan Set Melodrama
Lest we forget, it was Blanche Dubois, the broken seductress of Tennessee Williams’ classic A...
The Golden Glove | Review
No Glove No Love: Akin Revels in Garish Grotesqueries with Squalid Period Piece
Turkish-German director Fatih Akin resurrects the obscure German serial killer Fritz Honka...
The Conversation: The Din in Berlin – Top 10 Best of the 69th Berlinale
The 69th Berlinale will be remembered as a rather curious transitional year for the festival, the final year of its 4th director, Dieter Kosslick,...
Monsters. | 2019 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Time to Leave: Olteanu’s Debut Examines the Strain of Sacrifice in Studied Marital Drama
The relationship at the center of Romanian director Marius Olteanu’s carefully...
Öndög | 2019 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Steppe in the Name of Love: Quan’an Returns with Distinctive, Mysterious Flair
For his seventh feature, Chinese filmmaker Wang Quan’an turns to the Mongolian steppe...
Acid | 2019 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Melt With You: Gorchilin Tracks the Apathy of Russia’s Youth in Agitated Debut
No one gives a damn about their generation until they begin to...
