Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Celine Sciamma is a modern-day Bronte, wrotes Sam Astaire. Far and away, this is clearly one of the top films of the year and is a nigh essential piece if you enjoy lesbian cinema.
Category Archives: Reviews
Rocks
ROCKS presents a microcosm of the benefits of such a melting pot of cultures, and gives us hope for the future. Gabriel Farrell reviews the opening film of Cambridge Film Festival.
Talking About Trees
TALKING ABOUT TREES identifies a culture that has been lost in Sudan, it presents the viewer with the idea that films mean much more than products to be consumed but rather an experience to be shared. Charlie Stewart reviews.
Paper Boats
PAPER BOATS is primarily a story about the loss of the American Dream. Given the current political culture of America it seems all too important a story to simply let slip by. Ben Woodard reviews.
Film Festival Film
African filmmaker Fanon faces her fears of being unheard in a whitewashed, male-dominated industry.
Ladyworld
Within LADYWORLD Kramer has succeeded in breaking through the walls of expressive cinema, nonconformist cinema, and in some respects feminist cinema; but the film has failed to fully break through the forth wall. Steph Brown reviews.
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
The manner in THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO gently and lyrically blends that story with ideas of home, belonging, and internalised personal history transcends the boundaries of San Francisco or the Bay Area. Jim Ross reviews.
System Crasher
A remarkable achievement, which, without overly sensationalising what is a bleak and often repetitive situation, manages to be continuously gripping and intense.
Domestique
This domestic drama-cum-horror film, both bleak and oblique, owes much of its power to the director’s attention to detail in every shot.
Calalai: In Betweenness
When political media increasingly feed on, and seek to create, mass hysteria, CALALAI: IN-BETWEENNESS is a welcome disruption to the gender identity narrative. Willa Bews reviews at SQIFF 2019.