Cartography of Loneliness
A look at abandonment, rejection and abuse, Cartography of Loneliness doesn’t shy away from the harsh realities of being a widow in the third world.
Category Archives: Reviews
Cane Toads – The Conquest
Max Zeh reviews this 3D documentary about toads.
Calvet
Chris Stefanowicz looks at the story of Jean-Marc Calvet, the painter whose travels have taken him through the French foreign legion, the police force and private security for an American Mafioso.
Short Fusion: Let's Talk About Sex
Max Zeh reviews a compilation of five short films that deal with this delicate subject in very different, but boldly honest ways.
Late September
Evoking such introspective ensemble pieces as Woody Allen’s theatre-influenced September and, to some extent, the Danish family cacophony that was Festen, Jon Sanders’ latest film focuses on the intricate relationships and emotions shared amongst a group of people over the space of twenty-four hours.
Ispansi
Carlos Iglesias’ film explores the phenomena of ‘war children’, the many thousands of refugees evacuated from Spain in 1937 to countries such as the USSR, where the film unfolds.
Intimate Grammar
INTIMATE GRAMMAR is a wonderful portrait of adolescence in extremis; of how a sensitive soul is stifled in an increasingly virile world.
If not us, who? (Wer wenn nicht wir)
Max Zeh looks at the story of the raising communistic extremism of Gudrun Enssslin (Lena Lauzemis), long before she founded the RAF (Rote Armee Fraktion) together with Andread Baader (Alexander Fehling).
Henry Morris
“Henry Morris” is a documentary made by young filmmakers from Sawston about the eponymous father of the Cambridgeshire village college movement in the 1930s.
Guilty of Romance
The third film in Sono’s genre-bending ‘Hate Trilogy’ (after 2009’s LOVE EXPOSURE and 2010’s COLD FISH), GUILTY OF ROMANCE is equal parts gruesome police procedural, eccentric black comedy and erotically charged melodrama with flashes of psychological horror and frequent episodes of soft porn.