THE CASTLE OF PURITY
Starting around 1941, the one-armed rat poison manufacturer Rafael Pérez Hernández kept his family of finally seven (six surviving children... View Article
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SAINT OMER
Young writer Rama travels to the small village of Saint Omer to observe the trial of a young mother who drowned her child. In... View Article
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THE BLACK WIDOW
The Black Widow, an erotic small-town depiction, may be a slightly different and “smaller” film than the best-known works of... View Article
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PALIMPSEST
Hanna Västinsalo’s Palimpsest (2022) had its world premiere in the Venice Film Festival’s Biennale College Cinema programme and offers a... View Article
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MY JOY
A body is pushed in a ditch, a mixer-full of cement splashed on top. A bulldozer finishes the operation, rolling... View Article
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OKIKU AND THE WORLD
Japan, 1858: Yasuke and Chunji work their way through the lower-class tenement housing complexes of Edo (nowadays Tōkyō) – the... View Article
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KIKKA!
The singer Kirsi Sirén, better known as Kikka, lived a short life steeped in substances, and died of a heart... View Article
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MONDAY OR TUESDAY
Monday or Tuesday is not the first time that Vatroslav Mimica is experimenting with a stream of consciousness narrative –... View Article
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LEONORA ADDIO
One of Paolo (in Sodankylä in 2000) and Vittorio Taviani’s most notable directorial works, Chaos (1984), was based on the... View Article
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LYNX MAN
The complex human-animal relationship can be depicted as a continuum of utilisation, with merciless slaughter and exploitation in one end... View Article
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