Locarno Film Festival · 2013
17 films · 9 reviews
Like the bulls that Papi is so fond of, this film is more interested in careering about causing mayhem than dwelling on details.
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Baltasar Kormákur; Writer: Blake Master; Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Denzel Washington, Paula Patton, Edward James Olmos, James Marsden, Bill Paxton, Robert John Burke)
This is complete hand-waving trash - he's an ignorant, privileged cocky arsehole and good things happen to him. Pass the sick bucket.
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Richard Curtis; Writer: Richard Curtis; Stars: Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy, Lydia Wilson, Lindsay Duncan, Richard Cordery, Joshua McGuire, Tom Hollander, Margot Robbie, Will Merrick, Vanessa Kirby, Tom Hughes, Clemmie Dugdale, Harry Hadden-Paton, Mitchell Mullen)
Visually arresting, impressively taut and enjoyably idiosyncratic.
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Jeremy Saulnier; Writer: Jeremy Saulnier; Stars: Devin Ratray, Eve Plumb, Amy Hargreaves, David W Thompson, Bonnie Johnson)
For a director obsessed with "the real", Herzog's script begs for a dose of plausibility.
(Country: Germany; Year: 1982; Director: Werner Herzog; Writer: Werner Herzog; Stars: Klaus Kinksi, Claudia Cardinale, Jose Lewgoy, Miguel Angel Fuentes, Paul Hittscher, Grande Otelo)
Archambault has succeeded in making a film with her subjects and not simply about them – imperfections and all, while the musical element serves her purpose perfectly.
(Country: Canada; Year: 2013; Director: Louise Archambault; Writer: Louise Archambault; Stars: Gabrielle Marion-Rivard, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Alexandre Landry)
Gloria has the instincts of an eagle and the courage to fly.
(Country: Chile, Spain; Year: 2012; Director: Sebastián Lelio; Stars: Paulina García, Sergio Hernández, Diego Fontecilla, Fabiola Zamora)
(Country: Italy; Year: 2013; Director: Bruno Oliveiro; Writer: Valentina Cicogna, Doriana Leondeff, Bruno Oliveiro; Stars: Silvio Orlando, Giuseppe Battiston, Sandra Ceccarelli, Alice Raffaelli)
The themes of how globalisation affects personal destinies becomes evident as one individual story follows another with geographical and economic pressures impinging on the personal.
(Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Claire Simon; Writer: Claire Simon)
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2013; Director: Mikkel Nørgaard; Writer: Nikolaj Arcel, based on the book by Jussi Adler-Olsen.; Stars: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard)
(Country: Switzerland; Year: 2013; Director: Jean-Stéphane Bron)
(Country: Switzerland, France, Portugal; Year: 2013; Director: Lionel Baier; Writer: Lionel Baier, Julien Bouissoux; Stars: Michel Vuillermoz, Valérie Donzelli, Patrick Lapp)
Caine makes the most of the material on offer.
(Country: Germany, Belgium, USA, France; Year: 2013; Director: Sandra Nettelbeck; Writer: Sandra Nettelbeck, based on the book by Françoise Dorner.; Stars: Gillian Anderson, Michael Caine, Clémence Poésy)
(Country: Macedonia; Year: 2013; Director: Pascal Plisson; Writer: Marie-Claire Javoy, Pascal Plisson)
(Country: US; Year: 1981; Director: George Cukor; Writer: Gerald Ayres, based on the play by John Van Druten.; Stars: Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen, David Selby)
(Country: Belgium; Year: 2013; Director: Sam Garbarski; Writer: Philippe Blasband, Sam Garbarski; Stars: Moritz Bleibtreu, Patricia Arquette, Danny Pudi )
Thurber directs with broad brush strokes rather any finesse although the myriad close calls, mistaken identities and persuasions do produce their moments.
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber; Writer: Bob Fisher, Steve Faber; Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis, Emma Roberts, Nick Offerman, Kathryn Hahn, Will Poulter, Ed Helms, Molly Quinn, Tomer Sisley, Matthew Willig, Luis Guzman)
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Quentin Dupieux; Stars: Mark Burnham, Marilyn Manson, Steve Little, Eric Wareheim)
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