San Sebastian Film Festival · 2014
20 films · 14 reviews
Pollard and Forsyth, who have previously worked with Cave on Bad Seeds videos, turn inner states into inhabitable rooms. What is real and what is unreal is not for the audience to guess.
(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard; Stars: Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Blixa Bargeld, Kylie Minogue, Susie Cave, Ray Winstone, Darian Leader, Arthur Cave, Earl Cave)
A painstakingly deliberate neo-noir, heavy on atmosphere and taking its time to build.
(Country: China; Year: 2014; Director: Yi'nan Diao; Writer: Yi'nan Diao; Stars: Lun Mei Gwei, Fan Liao, Xuebing Wang)
François Gédigier's inspired editing trusts that mismatched sounds and images form an emotional whole.
(Country: France; Year: 2014; Director: Mathieu Amalric; Writer: Mathieu Amalric and Stéphanie Cléau, based on the book by Georges Simenon; Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Léa Drucker, Stéphanie Cléau, Mona Jaffart, Laurent Poitrenaux)
An authentic, no-holds barred roller coaster ride, which gives fresh hope for a new wave of British cinema.
(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Daniel Wolfe; Writer: Daniel Wolfe, Matthew Wolfe; Stars: Sameena Jabeen Ahmed, Connor McCarron)
(Year: 2014; Director: Diego Luna; Writer: Keir Pearson, Timothy J Sexton; Stars: Rosario Dawson, Gabriel Mann, John Malkovich, Michael Peña, America Ferrera, Kevin Dunn, Michael Cudlitz, Jacob Vargas, Lisa Brenner, Mark Moses, Debi Derryberry, Yancey Arias, Spencer Garrett, Peter Jason, Julian Seager)
(Country: Ethiopia; Year: 2013; Director: Zeresenay Mehari; Writer: Zeresenay Mehari; Stars: Meron Getnet, Tizita Hagere)
How the characters deal with grief is beautifully captured in the nuanced performances of McAvoy and Chastain.
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Ned Benson; Writer: Ned Benson; Stars: James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Ryan Eggold, Marta Milans, Ciarán Hinds, Archie Panjabi, William Hurt, Bill Hader, Viola Davis, Jess Weixler, Isabelle Huppert, Katherine Waterston, Nina Arianda, Jimmy Palumbo, Li Jun Li)
(Country: France, Spain, Belgium; Year: 2014; Director: Andrea Di Stefano; Writer: Andrea Di Stefano; Stars: Josh Hutcherson, Benicio Del Toro, Brady Corbet, Claudia Traisac, Carlos Bardem, Ana Girardot, Laura Londoño, Lauren Ziemski, Aaron Zebede, Henry Bravo, Micke Moreno, Mario Miranda, Elmis Castillo, Juan Francisco Selles)
(Country: Israel, France, Germany; Year: 2014; Director: Viviane Amsalem Ronit, Shlomi El Kabetz; Writer: Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz; Stars: Simon Abkarian, Rami Danon, Ronit Elkabetz, Sasson Gabai, Eli Gornstein)
Transformation is coming, although as with Sciamma's previous films this is not a simple, one-way manoeuvre, completed in double-quick time
(Country: France; Year: 2014; Director: Céline Sciamma; Writer: Céline Sciamma; Stars: Diabate Idrissa, Rabah Nait Oufella, Tatiana Rojo, Karidja Touré)
Courageous and uncompromising
(Country: US, France; Year: 2014; Director: Ira Sachs; Writer: Ira Sachs, Mauricio Zacharias; Stars: John Lithgow, Alfred Molina, Marisa Tomei, Darren E. Burrows, Charlie Tahan, Eric Tabach, John Cullum)
The energy and sheer visual bravura carry it along.
(Country: France, Canada; Year: 2014; Director: Xavier Dolan; Writer: Xavier Dolan; Stars: Anne Dorval, Antoine-Olivier Pilon, Suzanne Clément)
Pasolini's unfinished life remains painfully unresolved, as it should be.
(Country: France, Italy, Belgium; Year: 2014; Director: Abel Ferrara; Writer: Abel Ferrara, Maurizio Braucci, Nicola Tranquillino; Stars: Willem Dafoe, Maria de Medeiros, Riccardo Scamarcio, Giada Colagrande, Salvatore Ruocco, Adriana Asti, Valerio Mastandrea, Roberto Zibetti, Tatiana Luter, Guillaume Rumiel Braun, Diego Pagotto)
(Country: France; Year: 2014; Director: Laurent Cantet; Stars: Jorge Perugorría, Pedro Julio Díaz Ferran, Fernando Hechevarria, Alberto Pujols, Isabel Santos)
Wenders as a curious, excited filmmaker stretches out his hands to show us all the treasures he has found.
(Country: France, Italy, Brazil; Year: 2014; Director: Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2014; Director: Naomi Kawase; Writer: Naomi Kawase; Stars: Makiko Watanabe, Hideo Sakaki, Jun Murakami, Miyuki Matsuda, Tetta Sugimoto)
The relatable, compassionately told story should easily appeal to both adults and younger folk.
(Country: Japan; Year: 2013; Director: Isao Takahata; Writer: Isao Takahata; Stars: Aki Asakura, Yukiji Asaoka, Takeo Chii)
Slaboshpytskiy goes to show, first through Anna and then the actions of Sergey that some transactions can hold a lot more - and worse - than we have bargained for.
(Country: Ukraine, Netherlands; Year: 2014; Director: Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy; Writer: Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy; Stars: Grigoriy Fesenko, Yana Novikova, Rosa Babiy, Alexander Dsiadevich, Yaroslav Biletskiy)
Ferociously funny.
(Country: Argentina, Spain; Year: 2014; Director: Damián Szifron; Writer: Damián Szifron; Stars: Rita Cortese, Ricardo Darín, Nancy Dupláa, Darío Grandinetti, Oscar Martínez, Osmar Núñez, María Onetto, Erica Rivas, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Julieta Zylberberg)
Ceylan explores such themes as moral responsibility, class and altruism with rigour.
(Country: Turkey, France, Germany; Year: 2014; Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan; Writer: Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan; Stars: Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sözen, Demet Akbag)
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