Tag: 2024 Locarno International Film Festival
By the Stream | Review
Right Sketch, Wrong Skit: Sangsoo Scans Patterns in Bittersweet Interludes
Perspectives of regret and the uncertain odyssey of retrospection emphasize the undertones of perennial auteur...
The Sparrow in the Chimney | Review
There’s a Ghost in Me: Zurcher Explores the Necessity of Destruction
Amidst all the existential dread in Franz Kafka’s body of work, silver linings abound,...
Drowning Dry | Review
Dry Spell: Bareiša Explores Trauma in the Abstract
Repetitive patterns once again provide the narrative parameters reinforcing oblique happenings for Lithuanian director Laurynas Bareiša in...
Youth (Hard Times) | Review
Make the Best of Us: Bing’s ‘Youth’ Cycle Expands Into the Gloom
The middle part of Wang Bing’s Youth trilogy, Youth (Hard Times) perhaps more...
2024 Locarno Film Festival: Saulė Bliuvaitė Wins Pardo d’Oro for Toxic (Akiplėša)
The 2024 film festival summer closed out with the prizing at the Locarno Film Festival and it's the debut feature of a Lithuanian filmmaker...
The Life Apart | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review
Imitation of Life: Giordana Composes an Old-Fashioned Miracle
Music seems to be the language of the heart in The Life Apart (La vita accanto), a bizarre...
New Dawn Fades | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review
Through a Glass Darkly: Keltek Finds Divinity Through Insanity
Sanism might be the term best used to define the trials and travails faced by the...
Toxic (Akiplėša) | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review
The Taste of a Poison Paradise: Bliuvaite Explores the Commodification of Women’s Bodies
Lithuanian filmmaker Saulė Bliuvaitė perhaps could not have contrived a more succinct...
Cent mille milliards | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review
The Unhappy Hooker: Vernier Explores Ennui in Monaco
Interconnected drifters aligned with sex work once again provide the backbone for Virgil Vernier’s third feature 100,000,000,000,000...
Agora | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review
The Dead Don’t Die: Slim Sets Adrift in Tedious Metaphors
For his third feature film, Agora, Tunisian director Ala Eddine Slim continues in the realm...
Moon | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review
Bitter Moon: Ayub Concocts a Taut Domestic Thriller
“It takes time for a bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its...
Fogo do Vento (Fire of Wind) | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review
The Wind Carries On: Mateus Crafts Political Fable Fusing Past & Present
In her debut film, Fogo do Vento (Fire of Wind), which finds a...
Transamazonia | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review
Smite Material: Marais Unearths Jungle Cliches
It’s been over a decade since South African director Pia Marais’ last feature, and she’s spent six years working...
Mexico 86 | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review
Coup de Madre: Díaz Revisits Violent Turmoils with Intimate Familial Drama
Director César Díaz continues his cinematic exploration of Guatemala’s brutal civil war, considered the...
Death Will Come (La Mort viendra) | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review
And Bear Your Eyes: Hochhäusler’s Grim Sketch of a Tangled Underworld
Death, it seems, does not quite become Christoph Hochhäusler, the Berlin School alum making...
2024 Locarno Film Festival: César Díaz, Simon Jaquemet & Tarsem Singh in Piazza Grande
It has to be among the best open-air public spaces at any festival to premiere a film and it also counts as a safe...
2024 Locarno Film Festival: Ramon Zürcher, Kurdwin Ayub, Hong Sangsoo & Pia Marais in Pardo d’Oro Comp
Former Pardo d’Oro champs Hong Sangsoo (Right Now, Wrong Then - 2015) and Wang Bing (Mrs. Fang - 2017) will be measuring up against...
