All Directors' Fortnight articles – Page 19

  • Reviews

    Boogie

    2008-05-18T15:01:00Z

    Dir: Radu Muntean.Romania. 2008. 103mins.InRomania, Radu Muntean’s third feature film will ultimately be seen as a carefully-studied, remarkably accurate image of the country’s thirtysomething generation right now. Elsewhere, however, Boogie looks like an old-fashioned throwback to those endless talky New Wave films. A far cry from ...

  • Reviews

    Adhen (Le Dernier Maquis)

    2008-05-18T12:37:00Z

    Dir: Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche. France-Algeria. 2008. 93mins.Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche has addressed the schizoid nature of the clash of French and Algerian cultures before, most notably in the lovely Bled Number One, set in a small Algerian village. In Adhen, traditional religion comes up against contemporary capital in a ...

  • Reviews

    Four Nights With Anna (Cztery Noce Z Anna)

    2008-05-16T13:57:00Z

    Dir: Jerzy Skolimowski. France-Poland. 2008. 93mins.Veteran Polish auteur Jerzy Skolimowski crafts a delicate tragi-comic parable of love in his first film since 1991’s Ferdydurke. But though this story of a maladjusted misfit’s voyeuristic passion for a nurse has small moments of delight, this doesn’t stop it ...