We’re joined by Andrew Kendall to discuss the new German film Fabian: Going to the Dogs, directed by Dominik Graf, and how it portrays life in a totalitarian state. Listen…
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Cannes: Marie Kreutzer’s film Corsage finds the Empress in an existential crisis
…by Vicky Krieps) attends a formal state dinner in misery in Marie Kreutzer’s film Corsage. She is seated next to her son (left) and her lady in waiting (right). In…
Continental Drift (South) is a biting satire and family drama
…its wake. An unofficial state visit Nathalie at the refugee facility in Lionel Baier’s Cannes film Continental Drift (South), which premiered at the Director’s Fortnight at Cannes 2022. The plot…
Unruly Film Review: women battle patriarchy and eugenics in 1930s Denmark
…by refusing to answer his insulting questions. She does not yet understand that her rebellion is only seen as proof of her “troubled mental state”. Soon, she discovers that most…
Berlinale: Systems of (in)justice in Prosecution and A Family
…rise of Nazism. I began my Berlinale with two queer-themed films about the (in)justice systems, where justice isn’t blind. In Prosecution, the German state’s prosecution office, supposedly a beacon of…
Best of TIFF14: The Tribe is beyond words
…who spend their evenings prostituting out some of the girls at the school: the boys get money, and the girls get a chance to get out of the Ukraine, however…