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Search Results for: boys state

Atiq Rahimi, Our Lady of the Nile

Orla Smith / October 1, 2019

Atiq Rahimi on uncovering the seeds of war in Our Lady of the Nile

…and more a poetic, dreamlike exploration of how prejudice brews and corrupts innocence. Rather than trying to tackle the state of the entire country, we see the makings of the…

Disco, Jorunn Myklebust Syversen, Josefine Frida

Orla Smith / October 5, 2019

Interview: Disco shows “the journey to become radical”

…these things in every scene: her mental state should come through in the pictures, if it’s in colours or just in shadows or composition. 7R: Josefine, your two most well-known…

Alex Heeney / October 22, 2019

Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles on Bacurau

…Bacurau, in which Teresa (Barbara Colen) is driving into town, it is clear that something is rotten in the state of Brazil. Coffins for sale line the highway. A dam…

Raw, We Are What We Are

Rosie McCaffrey / November 5, 2019

‘It is with love that I do this’: Cannibalism and power under patriarchy in Raw and We Are What We Are

…animals is a threatening, clinical environment filled with unconscious bodies wired up to machines. The dreamy visual of a horse galloping on a treadmill echoes how monitored our natural states…

Best of the decade

Seventh Row Editors / November 19, 2019

What are the best films of the decade? A critics survey

…country in a state not just of denial, but of active psychosis. A masterpiece. 4. Embrace of the Serpent (2015, dir. Ciro Guerra) It seems Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is…

Alex Heeney / January 29, 2020

Sundance Review: Charter is psychologically complex

…are the result of trauma. It’s a testament to the sensitivity and psychological depth with which Kernell treats the material that you spend the film wondering about Alice’s emotional state…

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