Tag: 2024 Berlin International Film Festival

La cocina | Review

Soap Kitchen: Ruizpalacios Underwhelms & Over Bakes Food Drama Making his English language debut with fourth feature La Cocina, based on the notable stage play...

A Traveler’s Needs | Review

The Traveler Has Come: Huppert Shines in Latest Collaboration with Sang-soo There are few directors who seem to rightly channel the comic side of Isabelle...

Who by Fire (Comme le feu) | Review

Into the Woods: Lesage Explores Wounded Masculinities In Vincent Sherman’s 1943 Bette Davis-led melodrama Old Acquaintance, the complex relationship between a pair of female frenemies...

The Empire (L’Empire) | Review

The Satire Strikes Back: Dumont Claims His Own Multi-Verse It’s sometimes difficult to predict what mode French auteur Bruno Dumont will be choosing for his...

Pepe | Review

Cocaine Hippo: de Los Santos Arias Explores an Assassination To say Pepe, the second narrative feature from Dominican director Nelson Carlos de Los Santos Arias,...

The Devil’s Bath (Des Teufels Bad) | Review

Agnes of God: Franz & Fiala’s Bleak Portrait of Women & Madness “A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time,” wrote...

Small Things like These | Review

All the Small Things: Mielants Mines the Evils of Complicity “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do...

Dahomey | Review

Plunder Years: Diop Reflects on the Complex Realities of Reparation The spirit of Ozymandias, the classic poem from Percy Bysshe Shelley, might rouse itself in...

A Different Man | Review

The Face of Another: Schimberg Scrutinizes the Pratfalls of Face Value Those familiar with his 2018 sophomore film Chained for Life will likely notate director...

Matt and Mara | Review

Friends Forever: Radwanski Reteams With Deragh Campbell For Another Captivating Character Study In Close-Up The tension between a friendship that’s too close for comfort and...

2024 Berlinale: Festival Review Listing Recap

Before we put our focus on the upcoming edition of the Cannes Film Festival, we look back at our coverage of the Berlinale -...

Une Famille | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

A Letter to Daddy: Angot Continues Confrontation of Incest In short, there is no way to rate a film like Une Famille, the debut documentary...

Shambhala | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Defending Your Life: Bham’s Captivating Quest Follows Its Own Path The journey is the destination in Nepalese director Min Bahadur Bam’s graceful sophomore film,...

Sons (Vogter) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

A Poison Tree: Moller Employs Wrathful Mother in Jailhouse Revenge Drama “A man that studied revenge keeps his own wounds green,” comes to mind in...

The Great Yawn of History | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Cave of Forgotten Dreams: Rasti Hunts for Spiritual Treasures There have been countless films about the quest for fortune and glory, but you’ll be hard-pressed...

Who Do I Belong To | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Return of the Soldier: Joobeur Explores Ghosts of War Matriarchs confronted by their radicalized children have slowly and painstaking formed a cinematic subgenre of...

Black Tea | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Spill the Tea: Sissako Flounders with Tepid Brew The level of ineptitude apparent in every regard of Black Tea, Abderrahmane Sissako’s first narrative feature in...

Gloria! | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Music of the Heart: Vicario Pays Symphonic Homage to Erased History Composer Margherita Vicario makes her directorial debut with Gloria!, a period piece recuperating a...

Foreign Tongue (Langue étrangère) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Tongues Untied: Love Lies Easy in Burger’s Cross Culture Coming of Age Drama There’s a lot going on in Claire Burger’s third film, Foreign Tongue...

Architecton | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Judgment in Stone: Kossakovsky Gazes Into the Concrete Jungle Celebrated documentarian Viktor Kossakovsky explores our complex relationship with concrete in the abstract visual feast, Architecton....

Raíz (Through Rocks and Clouds) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

A Walk in the Clouds: Becerra Mines Escapism and Innocence in Quiet Drama A dwindling group of alpaca herders find themselves on the verge...

My New Friends (Les gens d’à côté) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Your Friends & Neighbors: Téchiné Tries for Ethical Sentiments Now in his eighties, director André Téchiné continues his steady, perennial output with the humanist melodrama...

Dying (Sterben) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Family Matters: Glasner’s Sprawling Portrait of Chaotic Dysfunction Exemplifying Tolstoy’s famous Anna Karenina quote on ‘every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,’ German...

Some Rain Must Fall | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Mistress of Misery: Yang Explores the Turmoil of Transformation Here comes the rain again, falling on her head like a tragedy. Or so is the...

Reas | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Caged Birds Singing: Arias Re-enacts Prison Experiences If Orange is the New Black was being workshopped as a community theater musical, it might resemble something...

My Summer with Irène | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Summertime Sadness: Sironi Escapes to Sicily in Oblique Friendship Drama There’s no running away from the past, no matter how glorious the sun dappled idyll...

Another End | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

The Power of Goodbye: Messina Gets Maudlin with Future Grief The devil’s unfortunately absent in the details of Another End, a conceptual science fiction melodrama...

Arcadia | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

None of Us Strangers: Zois Probes Unrest of Our Shadows “It is a defect of God’s humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to...

From Hilde, With Love | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Germany, Pale Mother: Dresen Locates the Good Germans of WWII It comes as no surprise an old-fashioned director such Andreas Dresen is adept at making...

Hors du Temps (Suspended Time) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Time Regained: Assayas Agonizes in Pretentious Pandemic Reflection In what stands as evidence of a surprising lack of self-awareness, director Olivier Assayas reenacts a composite...

My Favorite Cake | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Layer Cake: Moghaddam & Sanaeeha Find Love in a Hopeless Place If ever there were a film depicting how one cannot have their cake and...

The Editorial Office | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

The Winds of War: Bondarchuk Straddles a World On a Wire While it should play like an absurdist black comedy, Roman Bondarchuk’s sophomore narrative feature...

Exclusive: Clip for André Téchiné’s My New Friends (2024 Berlinale)

Today we feature an exclusive clip of veteran French filmmaker André Téchiné's latest oeuvre in My New Friends (aka Les Gens d’à côté) which...

Exclusive: Clip for Carlo Sironi’s My Summer with Irène (2024 Berlinale)

Part of the Generation 14plus selection at the upcoming Berlinale, My Summer with Irène is the highly anticipated sophomore feature by Italian filmmaker Carlo...

Exclusive: Clip for Roman Bondarchuk’s The Editorial Office (2024 Berlinale)

We've got an exclusive clip to Ukrainian filmmaker Roman Bondarchuk's The Editorial Office (Redaktsiya) - his sophomore feature film was selected for the Forum...

2024 Berlinale: Julia von Heinz, Tilman Singer, Philippe Lesage, Zellner Bros. & Renck’s Spaceman in Line-up

Berlinale topper Carlo Chatrian is slowly unveiling titles for his final line-up and this morning we've got some stocking stuffers with the first batch...

2024 Berlinale: Jane Schoenbrun, Nora Fingscheidt, Jérémy Clapin & Carmen Jaquier in Panorama Sidebar

The first batch of titles for the Panorama sidebar section for the 2024 Berlin Film Festival were revealed today and we've got a Sundance...

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