D: Ceylan Özgün Özçelik.
S: Algı Eke, Özgür Çevik, Kadir Çermik, Boncuk Yılmaz, Selen Uçer.
Paranoia horror, used to explore rule of law disintegration. Atrocity, cover up and media suppression needed more context.
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INFLAME (Kaygı) ★★★☆☆
D: Ceylan Özgün Özçelik. S: Algı Eke, Özgür Çevik, Kadir Çermik, Boncuk Yılmaz, Selen Uçer. Paranoia horror, used to explore rule of law disintegration. Atrocity, cover up and media suppression needed more context. LOGAN press conference:
- Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) - Patrick Stewart (Professor X) HAVE A NICE DAY (Hao ji le) ★★★½☆ D: Liu Jian. S: Yang Siming, Cao Kou, Ma Xiaofeng, Zhu Changlong, Cao Kai, Zheng Yi. Droll animation. TRUE ROMANCE meets DOG DAY AFTERNOON. Detailed frame, but too little movement within it. ANA, MON AMOUR ★★★½☆ D: Călin Peter Netzer (Child‘s Pose). S: Mircea Postelnicu, Diana Cavallioti, Carmen Tănase, Adrian Titieni, Vlad Ivanov. 127 minutes of emotional sadomasochism. Much going on and ambitious, but repetitive. LOGAN ★★★½☆ D: James Mangold (The Wolverine, Knight and Day, Walk The Line, Identity, Cop Land). S: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Boyd Holbrook, Stephen Merchant, Doris Morgado, Sienna Novikov, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Richard E. Grant. Ultra violent. Huge body count. Like the standouts of the X-MEN series, soaked in melancholy. End of an era. ON THE BEACH AT NIGHT ALONE press conference:
- director Hong Sang-soo - actor Kim Minhee ON THE BEACH AT NIGHT ALONE (Bamui haebyun-eoseo honja) ★★★☆☆ D: Hong Sang-soo (Yourself & Yours, Oki’s Movie, Night & Day, Woman is the Future of Man, The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well). S: Kim Minhee, Seo Younghwa, Jung Jaeyoung, Moon Sungkeun, Kwon Haehyo, Song Seonmi, Ahn Jaehong, Park Yeaju. My 20th Sang-soo feature. His most puzzling. There is a lot for the audience to fill in for ourselves, for better/worse. JOAQUIM ★★★☆☆ D: Marcelo Gomes. S: Julio Machado, Isabél Zuaa, Nuno Lopes, Rômulo Braga, Welket Bungué, Karay Rya Pua. Arthouse anti-imperialism/slavery film has a bold ending. Not a particularly efficient use of runtime though. BERLIN SYNDROME ★★½☆☆ D: Cate Shortland (Lore, Somersault). S: Teresa Palmer, Max Riemelt. Feels like a B movie. More À MOI SEULE than ROOM. Psychological insight lacking. THE BAR press conference:
- Director: Álex de la Iglesia. - Actors: Blanca Suárez, Jaime Ordóñez and Mario Casas. RETURN TO MONTAUK press conference:
- Actors: Stellan Skarsgård, Nina Hoss and Susanne Wolff. - Director: Volker Schlöndorff. COLO ★★☆☆☆ D: Teresa Villaverde. S: João Pedro Vaz, Alice Albergaria Borges, Beatriz Batarda, Clara Jost. Interminable. Inept dialogue, characterisation and storytelling. I, DANIEL BLAKE this ain't. RETURN TO MONTAUK ★★☆☆☆ D: Volker Schlöndorff (Diplomacy, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Tin Drum, The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum). S: Stellan Skarsgård, Nina Hoss, Susanne Wolff, Niels Arestrup. Disappointing. Laboured melodrama. Lots of charisma, but revelations and gravitas underwhelm. THE BAR (El Bar) ★★★½☆ D: Álex de la Iglesia (My Big Night, The Oxford Murders, 800 Bullets). S: Blanca Suárez, Mario Casas, Carmen Machi, Terele Pávez, Secun de la Rosa, Alejandro Awada, Joaquín Climent, Jaime Ordóñez. Funny chaotic apocalyptic misanthropy. Not in the same league as Iglesia's previous, MY GREAT NIGHT, but what is? THE MIDWIFE press conference:
Actors Catherine Deneuve and Catherine Frot. THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE press conference:
- Director Aki Kaurismäki - Actors Sakari Kuosmanen and Sherwan Haji |
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