Ann Hui's July Rhapsody is a melodrama about marital discord with a light touch, where both partners explore other relationships.On the surface, Chinese …
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Visions du Réel Review: Piotr Pawlus and Tomasz Wolski’s In Ukraine
Piotr Pawlus and Tomasz Wolski's observational documentary film In Ukraine provides a glimpse of quotidian life in a war zone. We interview Tomasz Wolski about …
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Visions du Réel & HotDocs Review: Erik Gandini’s After Work
Erik Gandini works with documentary images and sounds as if he's making a musical in his creative nonfiction film After Work, a look at varying attitudes to …
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Visions du Réel Review: An Inhabited Volcano
The documentary film An Inhabited Volcano offers a personal look at the 2021 La Palma volcano eruption through WhatsApp messages. Discover more creative …
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Quick Thoughts: Alice Winocour’s film Paris Memories (Revoir Paris)
With her new film Paris Memories (Revoir Paris), Alice Winocour continues her exploration of traumatized bodies and PTSD that has defined all of her films to …
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Whistler Reviews: Jason James’ Exile and Bruce Miller’s Conviction
Jason James's feature Exile (starring Adam Beach) and Bruce Miller's short Conviction both tell stories of a previously incarcerated Indigenous man struggling …
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