Noémie Merlant shines as a woman in love with a fairground ride, but Jumbo lacks psychological insight into the real phenomenon of Objectum Sexuality.
Film Festivals
Sundance ’20 Review: Summer White (Blanco de Verano)
Rodrigo Ruiz Patterson’s Summer White is a haunting story about a toxic mother-son relationship that gets interrupted by her new beau.
Sundance ’20 review: Surge
The sound design in Surge submerges us in a fractured mind, but that doesn’t save the film from feelings like Ben Whishaw’s discarded Joker audition tape.
Sundance ’20 Review: Cuties (Mignonnes)
Maïmouna Doucouré’s Cuties is an often compelling crowd-pleaser, if somewhat under-baked, which looks at how girls end up becoming over-sexualized at a young age.
From funny shit to midnight madness: The best shorts of LSFF 2020
Orla Smith picks eight great film from the 2020 London Short Film Festival (LSFF), one of the funnest film festivals in the UK.
A closer look at the TIFF 2019 Platform Competition
Proxima and My Zoe set the bar for what we should expect from female characters in film in TIFF’s Platform Competition, its flagship program for emerging filmmakers.