Film Reviews

2018 Berlin Film Festival: Emily Atef’s triumphant and poignant ‘3 Days in Quiberon’

Synopsis: Over the course of 3 days, late German actress Romy Schneider is interviewed in a hotel in France. Surrounding… Read More

February 19, 2018

2018 Berlin Film Festival Review: Eric Poppe’s haunting and audacious ‘U – JULY 22’

Synopsis: On July 22, 2011, a right-wing extremist murdered over 77 young men and woman on Utoya island in Norway.… Read More

February 19, 2018

2018 Berlin Film Festival Review: ‘The Real Estate’

Synopsis: A Swedish woman returns to her home country after living 25 years abroad. She inherits a large building with… Read More

February 19, 2018

2018 Berlin Film Festival Review: Laura Bispuri’s powerful and affecting ‘Daughter of Mine’

Synopsis: A drama centered on a girl who is living a seemingly happy life with her parents who raised her… Read More

February 18, 2018

2018 Berlin Film Festival Review: Cedric Kahn’s superbly acted and engaging ‘The Prayer’

Synopsis: A heroin addict enters a religious rehabilitation center far in the mountains in hopes of liberating himself from addiction.… Read More

February 18, 2018

2018 Berlin Film Festival Review: Benoît Jacquot’s ‘Eva’ starring Gaspard Ulliel and Isabelle Huppert is contrived and unconvincing

Synopsis: A playwright encounters a mysterious woman when he takes shelter in a chalet during a violent snowstorm. Benoît Jacquot’s EVA… Read More

February 17, 2018

2018 Berlin Film Festival Review: Christian Petzold’s ‘Transit’

Synopsis: When a man flees France after the Nazi invasion, he assumes the identity of a dead author whose papers he… Read More

February 17, 2018

2018 Berlin Film Festival Review: The raw and essential doc ‘What Comes Around’

It’s been an interesting few years for Middle Eastern cinema at the Oscars, with several films from Lebanon (THE INSULT),… Read More

February 16, 2018

2018 Berlin Film Festival Review: ‘Damsel’ starring Mia Wasikowska and Robert Pattinson

Synopsis: A Western about a young man trying to free the love of his life after she is kidnapped and… Read More

February 16, 2018

2018 Berlin Film Festival Review: ‘The Heiresses’

Synopsis: Due to bank debts, an elderly woman’s long life companion gets sent to jail. She is then left to… Read More

February 16, 2018

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