Senseless is a well-crafted, relatively restrained affair, boasting rock solid performances, believable characters (in extremis), highly effective sound design, and a clinically claustrophobic Big Brother-style set.
A businessman is abducted and deprived of his senses one by one as his torment is broadcast live over the internet.
A second-hand camera dealer remembers his university years when relationships were scarred with tragedy and desire while living a life of selfish isolation.
The performances of Kora Karvouni as Anna and Maria Skoula as Sophia are captivating.
Anna, a taciturn 30-something, lives in a small flat with her dog Manu, who means everything to her. After a distressing incident which disrupts her life, Anna attaches herself to the family of Sofia, a happily married woman and mother of two children.
The combination of its backwoods horror-style set-up, an excellent score from Michael Montes - at once childlike with a fairytale edge, yet quietly menancing - and the off-kilter but nice-as-mom's-apple-pie characters gives the comedy its disturbing edge.
A family of brothers face emotional upheaval when one of them returns home after a 18-year absence.
The incursion of something otherworldly into our hero's life takes place slowly, making it all the more unsettling.
A reclusive video arcade technician encounters strange metaphysical forces that result in bizarre bio-mechanical mutations when a new console appears in his shop.
Nellis gives the story a welcome feminist slant, showing Bohdanka is a heroine to be reckoned with and presenting Gabriela as complex and lonely rather than just a twisted crone.
There is undoubtedly a need, if not a demand, for action movies in our society, but ones as skilfully shot and put together as Seven Swords infuriate as much as they delight.
A 17th century band of swordsmen defend villagers from murderous gang
There is so much going on that, through mad exuberance alone, Sex And Fury quickly achieves critical mass, bubbling over into something far more than just the sleazy sum of its parts.
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By being successfully chic and delightfully superficial, the characters distract us from the wedding bells goal and the way their lives really stereotype them.
The moral is supposed to be that, underneath the cultural trappings, women are women all over the world. Sadly, what the film actually says is that, underneath the cultural trappings, women all over the world are just as shallow, vapid, superficial, and v
The four friends face life's crises and head for Abu Dhabi.
