Tag: 2022 Locarno International Film Festival

Saturn Bowling | Review

Nightmare (Bowling) Alley: Mazuy Shocks with Disturbing Thriller Every once in a while, a film comes along which conceptualizes brutality so shocking and vile it...

Piaffe | Review

Horse Girl: Oren Gets Hot to Trot in Strange, Alluring Debut What is it about horses, exactly, and their tacit parallels with subterranean conduits of...

Regra 34 (Rule 34) | 2022 Locarno Intl. Film Festival Review

Cam and See: Murat Explores Pleasure Principles in Provocative Portrait “She does it for the thrill, even if it kills,” might be a good tagline...

2022 Locarno: Julia Murat’s Regra 34 (Rule 34) Claims the Golden Leopard

The jury comprised of Michel Merkt, Prano Bailey-Bond, Alain Guiraudie, William Horberg and Laura Samani have bestowed the big daddy prize of them all...

Fairytale | 2022 Locarno Intl. Film Festival Review

Planet Terror: Sokurov Gets Purgatorial in Nightmare on 20th Century Tyrants “Death is the solution to all problems,” said Joseph Stalin. It turns out this...

2022 Locarno Film Festival: Thomas Hardiman, Anna Gutto, Blandine Lenoir & Olivia Newman

Anna Gutto's directorial debut Paradise Highway (starring Juliette Binoche), Blandine Lenoir's third feature Annie Colère (starring Laure Calamy), Kilian Riedhof's sophomore film Vous n’aurez...

2022 Locarno Film Festival: Mazuy, Wittmann, Murat, Verheyde & Woo Ming Jin Vying for the Golden Leopard

It'll be a field of seventeen competition offerings from the likes of master filmmaker Aleksandr Sokurov (Fairytale) to a pair of first time (not...

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Interview: Virginie Efira – All of a Sudden

In All of a Sudden (read review), Virginie Efira delivers...

Interview: Nathalia Acevedo – Salón de belleza

Actress-turned-filmmaker Nathalia Acevedo made her feature directorial debut with...