All articles by Jonathan Romney – Page 13
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‘Vicenta’: DOK Leipzig Review
The story of an Argentinian mother’s quest for her disabled daughter is made all the more effective by Dario Doria’s Plasticene model work
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‘Downstream To Kinshasa’: DOK Leipzig Review (Cannes Label)
Unbowed survivors of a bloody conflict take to the road - and down the river Congo - to protest their case
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‘Girls/Museum’: DOK Leipzig Review
Shelly Silver takes a walk through Leipzig’s modern museum in the company of 16 perceptive young women
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‘Children’: DOK Leipzig Review
Ada Uspiz’s camera dramatically demonstrates how children grow up all too quickly in Palestine
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‘Striding Into The Wind’: London Review
‘A Chinese slacker story with a very cinephile flavour’
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‘The Show’: Review
Alan Moore writes and improbably stars in this genre tribute set in Northampton
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‘Genus Pan’: Hamburg Review
One of Lav Diaz’s most accessible films chronicles the growing tensions between three men crossing the jungle
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‘Forgotten We’ll Be ('Memories Of My Father')’: San Sebastian Review
Spain’s premiere festival signs out its 2020 edition with a sentimental drama from Fernando Trueba
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‘Riot Police’: San Sebastian Review (TV)
Spanish investigative drama with strong ensemble acting is a winner for co-creators Rodrigo Sorogoyen and Isabel Peña
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‘Wuhai’: San Sebastian Review
Debt and tensions rise in Zhou Zhiyang’s second feature, set in a vivid Inner Mongolia
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‘Enfant Terrible’: Hamburg Review
Oliver Masucci brings Rainer Werner Fassbinder to flamboyantly grouchy life
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‘In The Dusk’: San Sebastian Review
Sharunas Bartas returns to form with this stark, sombre Lithuanian war story
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‘Rosa’s Wedding’: San Sebastian Review
A feel-good domestic comedy about a put-upon woman who goes AWOL in a bid for some serious Me Time
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‘Akelarre’: San Sebastian Review
Pablo Agüero brings a #MeToo spin to this Spanish Inquisition drama
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‘El Gran Fellove’: San Sebastian Review
Matt Dillon drums up a hugely entertaining tale of a lost Cuban musician
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‘Passion Simple’: San Sebastian Review
Laetitia Dosch and Sergei Polunin headline this adaptation of the ‘autofiction’ novel by Annie Ernaux
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‘Crock Of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan’: San Sebastian Review
Julien Temple takes a trip down memory lane - or what’s left of it - with the former Pogues frontman
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‘Crazy, Not Insane’: Venice Review
Alex Gibney’s fascinating doc tells of a career spent entirely on the examination of serial killers
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‘In Between Dying’: Venice Review
This metaphysical road movie journeys through the terrain of Tarkovsky and Bresson