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Thirty-something Jérémie returns to the picturesque village of his youth in the south of France to attend the funeral of... View Article
Read moreThirty-something Jérémie returns to the picturesque village of his youth in the south of France to attend the funeral of... View Article
Read moreGermany, 1945. Life goes on in the partly French, partly US-American occupied Allgäu. People eg. want to watch films, now... View Article
Read moreUrologist Marianne is not interested in a relationship, yet her friend is trying to set her up with a divorced... View Article
Read moreNine years ago, Thierry Frémaux (guest of the festival in 2001) made the indisputably fascinating documentary Lumière! about the short... View Article
Read moreThe fourth instalment of the Grump series, based on the novels by Tuomas Kyrö, opens with a scene in which... View Article
Read moreThere have been impressive films about the war in Ukraine, such as from director Sergei Loznitsa (guest of the festival... View Article
Read moreIn 1984 Aki Kaurismäki wrote: ”Mänttäri’s films have the troublesome effect of gnawing at us, sneering at us from behind... View Article
Read morePremiere at the Midnight Sun Film Festival! A timeless, stark, black-and-white landscape, ruthless to its inhabitant, sets the stage for... View Article
Read moreHungarian director Bálint Szimler’s first narrative feature Lesson Learned, which was awarded at Locarno, takes an interesting approach to the... View Article
Read moreErich von Stroheim's Greed is probably, along with Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), the most famous mutilated masterpiece in the history of cinema, an epic exploration of human nature that has been slashed from its original length of over nine hours to its current running time.
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