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59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
2012
This was clearly a family affair for Delpy and a labour of love, but this film inevitably is taking a risk reheating the five-year-old meal that was 2 Days in Paris.
Even a flawed film can sometimes produce that extra lightness in one's step.
Laugh out loud funny and heartbreaking without resorting to neat Hollywood set-ups or resolutions.
Bonke and Keofoed have crafted a compelling portrait that asks questions about the nature and inherent dangers of competition, ambition, sacrifice and commitment both on and off the dance floor.
Though its central narrative is slight, the film delivers it well and is refreshingly self-aware.
Ruzowitzky bobs and weaves around the cliches in ways that lift Deadfall above many of its genre contemporaries.
This story of friendship between a Jewish couple and the tabloid journalist who rose to the top of Hitler's propaganda ministry has implications that echo down the generations, at once shocking and mundane.
Fawns completes the troika with a ringing emotional pop.
It's rare to see a film that is at once so playful and so openly political.
The only thing Martens takes seriously is his humour - and it pays off handsomely.
A gently paced but unsparing and unglamorous portrait of a gay relationship where love doesn't and perhaps never could conquer all.
Essentially, this is Gerwig's natural charm versus her character and script's lack of it.
With no hard endorsement from any sort of doctor or a counter-argument to kick against, the assertions regarding psychiatric drugs feel dangerously flimsy.
Yi proves adept at documenting the tactile nature of Young-Chan's relationship with the world
The camera is always very close to the actors, in their faces, capturing what can only be done in fiction.
The picture Edwin paints recalls the postcards of the title, both for good and ill.
Resolution is an excellent amalgamation of horror traits that also stands on its own two feet.
You will learn a few things here, even if you are a film buff.
A delightful experience for musos and the uninitiated alike, Searching For Sugar Man deserves to reach as wide an audience as its underdog hero eventually did himself.
Some of the dialogue could be more polished, but the brutal honesty... makes up for it.
The product of around four years’ filming, Town Of Runners is impressive on several levels.
The idea of the cyclical nature of love and life is ripe for exploration and Margot is a pleasingly complex character, whose motivations are believable.
In the central role, Frieda Pinto shows that she has come of age, delivering the story's most powerful screen heroine yet.
This is no chest-beating, flag-waving war movie, no propaganda for conflicts past, present or future, War Witch is the story of childhood destroyed, a country in flames and of how we survive the worst of what (in)humanity throws at us.
What you get out of Your Sister's Sister is likely to depend quite a bit on the audience you see it with.
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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