All articles by Wendy Ide – Page 33
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Reviews‘Swimming Out Till The Sea Turns Blue’: Berlin Review
Source: X Stream Pictures ‘Swimming Out Till The Sea Turns Blue’ Dir: Jia Zhang-ke. China. 2020. 112mins Taking as its jumping off point a literary event in a village in China’s Shanxi Province (the director’s native region), this documentary looks at aspects of Chinese life and history ...
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Reviews‘Cocoon’: Berlin Review
Leonie Kripendorff’s coming-out drama opens the Generation sidebar at the Berlinale
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Reviews‘The Intruder’: Berlin Review
Natalie Meta’s ‘stridently entertaining’ second film plays in Competition at the Berlinale
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Reviews‘My Salinger Year’: Berlin Review
The Berlinale opens with a muted adaptation of Joanna Rakoff’s popular memoir
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Reviews‘Mogul Mowgli’: Review
Riz Ahmed plays a first generation rap artist, at odds with his world - and eventually his body.
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Reviews‘A Perfectly Normal Family’: Rotterdam Review
A daughter watches her father transition in this carefully-observed debut, winner of Rotterdam’s Big Screen award
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Reviews‘The Cloud In Her Room’: Rotterdam Review
Noteworthy debut from this female director marks a new voice in Chinese cinema
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Reviews‘The Evening Hour’: Rotterdam Review
The grandson of a preacherman plies his trade in an opioid-afflicted West Virginia town
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Reviews‘High Tide’: Sundance Review
Argentina’s Veronica Chen returns to Sundance with a knotty drama about power, privilege and sexuality
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Reviews‘Nasir’: Rotterdam Review
A day in the life Muslim man living in the predominantly Hindu city of Coimbatore
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Reviews‘Impetigore’: Rotterdam Review
Indonesian shadow puppetry gives vent to some genre gore in the latest from Joko Anwar
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Reviews‘Charter’: Sundance Review
Amanda Kernell follows up ‘Sami Blood’ with this ‘impressively scratchy’ character study of a flawed but loving mother
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Reviews‘Kala Azar’: Rotterdam Review
The feature debut of video artist Janis Rafa explores the gritty relationships between humans and animals
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Reviews‘Possessor’: Sundance Review
Brandon Cronenberg follows up ‘Antiviral’ with this lurid sci-fi thriller starring Andrea Riseborough
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Reviews‘Working Girls’: Rotterdam Review
A dead body unites three French prostitutes who cross the border every day to work in a Belgian brothel
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Reviews‘Vivos’: Sundance Review
A powerful and perceptive study of lives invaded by tragedy in Mexico from China’s Ai Weiwei
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Reviews‘Young Hunter’: Rotterdam Review
A 15-year-old boy explores his homosexuality with a fellow skater in Marco Berger’s sensitive drama
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Reviews‘VHYes’: Rotterdam Review
An engaging absurdist VHS collage which also features the director’s parents, Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon
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