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  • Creatura (2023)
    Review preview for Creatura

    Trauma here isn’t a switch turned on by a force strong enough to propel it into being, but instead, it’s a slow-burning reflective state.

    Nikola Jovic · 4 out of 5
    A woman realises the source of her trauma and sexual appetite after returning to her coastal-town home.
  • Falling Star (2014)
    Review preview for Falling Star

    There is plenty to admire here, including some clever juxtaposition of audio and image.

    Rebecca Naughten · 3 out of 5
    A hallucinatory look into the brief reign of the Spanish King Amadeo I of Savoy in the early 1870s.
  • From The Land Of The Moon (2016)
    Review preview for From The Land Of The Moon

    Cotillard's face oscillates mysteriously between the past depicted on the screen and a woman of the present who tries to understand.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
    Twenty-year story of the loves of a passionate, free-spirited woman.
  • The Offering (2020)
    Review preview for The Offering

    There's a lot of good work here, particularly in the way that Durall trusts his actors to fill out key aspects of the narrative without words.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A man racked by guilt undertakes a complex scheme to win back the woman he abandoned 20 years previously.
  • Painless (2012)
    Review preview for Painless

    There is a great story in here somewhere.. but the combination of the two narratives - presented as tonally and visually distinct from one another - does not entirely work.

    Rebecca Naughten · 2.5 out of 5
    Gothic horror entwining the story in 1930s Catalonia of a group of children who cannot feel pain, with a man searching for his biological parents in the present day.
  • Truman (2015)
    Review preview for Truman

    Gay challenges the usual cliches of disease films.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A terminally ill man spends four days with an old friend.
  • Transit (2018)
    Review preview for Transit

    Time and place hold both no and every meaning in Christian Petzold's latest film.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Georg flees to Marseilles to escape the German army. Assuming a false identity, he tries to obtain passage on a ship bound for Mexico. But then he meets Marie and his plans change.
  • Wakolda (2013)
    Review preview for Wakolda

    Àlex Brendemühl is superb as the doctor, by turns avuncular and ruthless, somebody on whom the family find themselves increasingly dependent even as they come to distrust him.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    An Argentinian family setting up a guest house grows suspicious of a friendly German doctor who seems to command unusual respect in the local German community.
  • Yo (2006)
    Review preview for Yo

    Fear festers like the cut of a rusty scythe.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    The mystery of two men called Hans.

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