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Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival · 2018

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2018

Midnight Shivers

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10 films · 6 reviews

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Climax

(Country: France; Year: 2018; Director: Gaspar Noé; Writer: Gaspar Noé)

Destroyer

Review preview for Destroyer

It's essentially a character study - the trouble is that there's not much character there.

Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
An LAPD detective whose undercover work ended in tragedy is faced to confront her past when the leader of the gang she was embedded in re-emerges.

(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Karyn Kusama; Writer: Phil Hay, Matt Manfredi; Stars: Sebastian Stan, Nicole Kidman, Toby Kebbell, Tatiana Maslany, Bradley Whitford, Scoot McNairy, Natalia Cordova-Buckley, Toby Huss, Beau Knapp, Jade Pettyjohn, Shamier Anderson, James Jordan, Jay Hieron, Zach Villa, Mickey O'Hagan)

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Keep An Eye Out! (Au Poste!)

A story that revolves around a mustachioed man who has found a body close to his home...

(Country: France; Year: 2018; Director: Quentin Dupieux; Writer: Quentin Dupieux; Stars: Benoît Poelvoorde, Grégoire Ludig, Marc Fraize, Anaïs Demoustier, Orelsan, Philippe Duquesne, Jacky Lambert, Jeanne Rosa, Vincent Grass, Nahel Ange, July Messéan, Johnny Malle, Laurent Nicolas, Michel Hazanavicius, Pedro Winter)

Knife + Heart (Un Couteau Dans Le Cour)

Review preview for Knife + Heart

This isn't the kind of film that's destined to win mainstream awards but Paradis' performance deserves to be remembered.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
Paris, Summer 1979. Anne produces third-rate gay porn. After her editor and lover Lois leaves her, she tries to win her back by shooting her most ambitious film yet with her trusted, flaming sidekick Archibald... then one of her actors is brutally murdered.

(Country: France, Mexico; Year: 2018; Director: Yann Gonzalez; Writer: Yann Gonzalez, Cristiano Mangione; Stars: Vanessa Paradis, Kate Moran, Nicolas Maury, Noé Hernández, Pierre Emö, Pierre Pirol, Thibault Servière, Naëlle Dariya, Salim Torki, Jeremy Flaum, Vanessa Paradis, Kate Moran, Nicolas Maury, Noé Hernández, Pierre Emö, Félix Maritaud)

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Mandy

Review preview for Mandy

The film only lives up to about 80% of the promise whereas I wanted 150%.

Owen Van Spall · 3 out of 5
Pacific Northwest. 1983. Outsiders Red Miller and Mandy Bloom lead a loving and peaceful existence. When their haven is savagely destroyed by a cult, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance.

(Country: Belgium, US; Year: 2018; Director: Panos Cosmatos; Writer: Panos Cosmatos, Aaron Stewart-Ahn; Stars: Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache, Bill Duke, Richard Brake, Ned Dennehy, Olwen Fouere, Hayley Saywell)

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Perfect

A nameless teenager is admitted to a special clinic. Hidden in the middle of vast jungle, young people come here to become better. Everyone has their story, our protagonist’s a little darker than others – he is admitted by his mother to stop him from killing again. An act he himself does not remember.

(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Eddie Alcazar; Writer: Eddie Alcazar, Ted Kupper; Stars: Abbie Cornish, Courtney Eaton, Maurice Compte, Tao Okamoto, Martin Sensmeier, Madeline Blake, Leonardo Nam, Shaun Ross, Rainey Qualley, Alicia Sanz, Hailee Keanna Lautenbach, Sarah McDaniel, Garrett Wareing, Victor Ortiz, Cazzey Louis Cereghino)

Suspiria

Review preview for Suspiria

If we compared the original to a Mark Rothko canvas - a distillation of raw emotion - this version is more akin to a colossal, baffling kinetic sculpture, one that seems to exist in more dimensions than it ought to.

Max Crawford · 4.5 out of 5
A nightmare brews in a dance company.

(Country: Italy, US; Year: 2018; Director: Luca Guadagnino; Writer: Dario Argento, Daria Nicolodi, David Kajganich; Stars: Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, Lutz Ebersdorf, Angela Winkler, Ingrid Caven, Elena Fokina, Sylvie Testud, Renée Soutendijk, Christine Leboutte, Fabrizia Sacchi, Malgorzata Bela, Jessica Harper, Chloë Grace Moretz, Vanda Capriolo)

Full review See: Venice 2018: First Man, Peterloo, The Favourite, Roma, The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs and Suspiria

Tumbbad

Review preview for Tumbbad

If we have, ourselves, become greedy to know exactly what the secret is by this point, Barve certainly does not disappoint.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
A greedy boy seeks out hidden riches in the dungeon beneath an ancestral house guarded by a terrifying deity.

(Country: India; Year: 2018; Director: Rahi Anil Barve, Anand Gandhi, Adesh Prasad; Writer: Mitesh Shah, Adesh Prasad, Rahi Anil Barve, Anand Gandhi; Stars: Sohum Shah, Harish Khannaa, Anita Date, Mohd Samad, Jyoti Malshe, Deepak Damle, Dhundiraj Prabhakar Jogalekar, Sohum Shah, Harish Khannaa, Anita Date, Mohd Samad, Jyoti Malshe, Deepak Damle, Dhundiraj Prabhakar Jogalekar)

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Under The Silver Lake

Review preview for Under The Silver Lake

There are just too many movie references and homage to the likes of David Lynch in this noirish thriller to make it anything other than an over-derivative exercise in style over substance.

Richard Mowe · 2 out of 5
A man becomes obsessed with the strange circumstances of a billionaire mogul's murder and the kidnapping of a girl.

(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: David Robert Mitchell; Writer: David Robert Mitchell; Stars: Andrew Garfield, Riley Keough, Topher Grace, Patrick Fischler, Grace Van Patten, Callie Hernandez, Zosia Mamet, Jeremy Bobb, Sydney Sweeney, Jimmi Simpson, David Yow)

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The World Is Yours (Le monde ou rien, Le Monde Est à Toi)

(Year: 2018; Director: Romain Gavras; Writer: Karim Boukercha, Noé Debré, Romain Gavras; Stars: Karim Leklou, Vincent Cassel, Isabelle Adjani, François Damiens, Oulaya Amamra, Philippe Katerine, Michael John Treanor, Norbert Ferrer, Gabby Rose, Yun-Ping He, Karim Leklou, Vincent Cassel, Isabelle Adjani, François Damiens, Oulaya Amamra)