Tag: Joao Canijo
Interview: João Canijo – Bad Living (Mal Viver)
Taking home the Jury Prize at the 2023 Berlinale, Portuguese auteur João Canijo's latest Bad Living (Mal Viver) is the director's masterpiece, examining the...
Living Bad (Viver Mal) | 2023 Berlin Film Festival Review
The Mirror Has Two Faces: Canijo’s Customers Are Always Blight with Inverse Melodrama
“Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it...
Bad Living | 2023 Berlin Film Festival Review
The Best Exotic Portugal Hotel: Canijo Examines Motherhood as Misanthropy in Masterful Familial Miasma
The women handling the specialty boutique hotel in Joao Canijo’s Mal...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: # 73. Joao Canijo’s Fatima
Fatima
Director: Joao Canijo
Writer: Joao Canijo
Portuguese director Joan Canijo assembles some regular cast members for his latest, Fatima (aka Amen), a film about a pilgrimage...
Nicholas Bell’s Top Ten Unreleased Films of 2012: Picks 10 to 6 includes Sigarev’s Living & Jude’s Everybody In Our Family
#10. Living – Dir. Vasili Sigarev (Russia)
Premiering at the 2012 Rotterdam Film Festival, this sophomore effort from Vasili Sigarev is, of course, ironically titled,...
Blood of My Blood | AFI Fest 2012 Review
Bloodletting: Canijo’s Latest a Masterwork of Familial Upheaval
Portuguese director Joao Canijo returns with his eighth feature, Blood of My Blood, (his first fictional outing...
