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The Forgiven (2021) Review
The Forgiven (2021) Director: John Michael McDonagh Screenwriter: John Michael McDonagh Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Jessica Chastain, Matt Smith, Saïd Taghmaoui, Mourad Zaoui, Ismael Kanater, Caleb Landry Jones, Christopher Abbott Following the commercial failure of his last film (War on Everyone) released five years ago, John Michael McDonagh – brother of Martin McDonagh (In Bruges) and…
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Return to Seoul (2022) Review
Return to Seoul (2022) Director: Davy Chou Screenwriter: Davy Chou Starring: Ji-Min Park, Oh Kwang-rok, Guka Han, Kim Sun-young, Yoann Zimmer, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Hur Ouk-Sook When Davy Chou joined his close friend and her biological family for a meal during a visit to South Korea, the French-Cambodian director was struck by the complete lack…
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Winners (2022) EIFF Review
Winners (2022) Director: Hassan Nazer Screenwriters: Hassan Nazer, Hamed Emami Starring: Parsa Maghami, Reza Naji, Hossein Abedini Imagine coming across an Oscar statue. What would you do? Keep it? Try to find its rightful owner? This is the premise of Winners, the story following a young waste picker by the name of Yahya (Parsa Maghami)…
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Full Time (2021) EIFF Review
Full Time (2021) Director: Eric Gravel Screenwriter: Eric Gravel Starring: Laure Calamy, Anne Suarez, Geneviève Mnich, Cyril Gueï Premiering at Venice Film Festival back in September of 2021, Eric Gravel’s critically acclaimed Full Time is at the end of its festival run, with one of its final stops coming at the 2022 edition of the…
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Axiom (2022) EIFF Review
Axiom (2022) Director: Jöns Jönsson Screenwriter: Jöns Jönsson Starring: Moritz von Treuenfels, Thomas Schubert Axiom, the latest film from upcoming Swedish director Jöns Jönsson, follows Julius, an eloquent young museum attendant, who invites his colleagues on a sailing trip. It is a simple story, but one that may not play out as you think. The…
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Sick of Myself (2022) Review
Sick of Myself (2022) Director: Kristoffer Borgli Screenwriter: Kristoffer Borgli Starring: Kristine Kujath Thorp, Eirik Sæther, Elisabeth Bech Aschehoug, Sarah Francesca Brænne, Anders Danielsen Lie, Fredrik Stenberg Ditlev-Simonsen, Guri Hagen Glans, Steinar Klouman Hallert, Andrea Bræin Hovig, Matilda Höög To say that Kristoffer Borgli’s Sick of Myself is a study of rampant narcissism would be,…
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Official Competition (2021) EIFF Review
Official Competition (2021) Directors: Gastón Duprat, Mariano Cohn Screenwriters: Gastón Duprat, Andrés Duprat, Mariano Cohn Starring: Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas, Oscar Martínez Continuing his late career resurgence, thanks in no small part to Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain and Glory, Antonio Banderas stars alongside Penélope Cruz and Oscar Martínez in the Spanish dark comedy Official Competition. Millionaire…
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Nope (2022) Review
Nope (2022) Review Director: Jordan Peele Screenwriter: Jordan Peele Starring: Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Steven Yeun, Brandon Perea, Michael Wincott, Wren Schmidt, Kieth David, Terry Notary, Jacob Kim Jordan Peele’s latest genre-smashing film Nope has arrived hotly anticipated and under an impenetrable cloud of secrecy. For almost a year, all we had to go on…
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Flux Gourmet (2022) EIFF Review
Flux Gourmet (2022) Director: Peter Strickland Screenwriter: Peter Strickland Starring: Asa Butterfield, Gwendoline Christie, Ariane Labed, Fatma Mohamed, Makis Papadimitriou Peter Strickland, the infamous director behind some of the weirdest films you’ve never seen, follows his giallo-inspired horror film In Fabric (in which a haunted red dress torments its various owners) with his latest sure-to-be-divisive…
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Aftersun (2022) EIFF Review
Aftersun (2022) Director: Charlotte Wells Screenwriter: Charlotte Wells Starring: Paul Mescal, Frankie Corio, Celia Rowlson-Hall Met with critical acclaim after first premiering during Cannes Critic Week, Charlotte Wells’ feature directorial debut opened the 2022 Edinburgh International Film Festival in its UK premiere. The feature, from the Scotland-born director, follows the father-daughter duo of Calum (Paul Mescal)…