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GFF2024 review: We Have Never Been Modern / Úsvit

Year: 2024 Runtime: 117 minutes Directed by: Matěj Chlupáček  Written by: Miro Šifra Starring: Eliška Křenková, Miloslav König, Luboš Veselý, Milan Ondrík, Richard Langdon, Ján Jackuliak By Sarah Manvel This Czech-Slovak co-production is highly unusual and not just in its marketing through-line of a woman investigating a crime in Slovakia in 1937. Its real subject is how society then and society now deals with intersex people – that … Continue reading GFF2024 review: We Have Never Been Modern / Úsvit

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Review: Anyone But You

Runtime: 103 minutes Written by: Ilana Wolpert and Will Gluck Directed by: Will Gluck Starring: Sydney Sweeney, Glen Powell, Hadley Robinson, Alexandra Shipp, GaTa, Bryan Brown, Rachel Griffiths, Dermot Mulroney, Charlee Fraser, Darren Barnet, Joe Davidson By Sarah Manvel It is an absolute pleasure to see someone modernise the wheel, especially when the wheel is a romantic comedy on film in a cinema. You’d think … Continue reading Review: Anyone But You

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NYFF 61 Review: All of Us Strangers

Year: 2023 Runtime: 105 minutes Director: Andrew Haigh Writers: Andrew Haigh (Screenplay), Taichi Yamada (Based on the novel by) Actors: Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy, Jamie Bell By Tom Moore The latest from director Andrew Haigh – “All of Us Strangers” – is an excellently-acted and moving portrayal of lasting grief that establishes powerful perspective and constantly plucks at your heartstrings throughout its deeply … Continue reading NYFF 61 Review: All of Us Strangers

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Review: Lie with Me

Year: 2023 Runtime: 98 minutes Written by: Olivier Peyon, Vincent Poymiro, Cécilia Rouaud, Arthur Cahn Directed by: Olivier Peyon Actors: Guillaume de Tonquédec, Victor Belmondo, Jérémy Gillet, Julien de Saint Jean, Guilaine Londez By Sarah Manvel Life in movies is always so clear-cut. When someone in a movie leaves town, that’s it – they never come back again. Not for a christening or a funeral or … Continue reading Review: Lie with Me

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Monster: Cannes Film Festival 2023 Review

Year: 2023 Runtime: 126 minutes Director: Hirokazu Kore-Eda Writer: Yuji Sakamoto Actors: Soya Kurokawa, Sakura Ando, Yuko Tanaka, Eita Nagayama, Hiiragi Hinata By Sarah Manvel “Monster” is about what happens when adults hate their lives, and how children, who are usually powerless to fight back when adults take it out on them, can exact sharp but misdirected revenge. It won both best screenplay and the Queer … Continue reading Monster: Cannes Film Festival 2023 Review

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