Search: Starring Saskia Rosendahl

Cicadas (2025)

Review preview for Cicadas

The director drops her audience into the lives of these two women and lets the rhythm of their lives guide the narrative.

Paul Risker · 3.5 out of 5

A woman whose marriage is crumbling and is struggling to care for her ageing parents has an encounter with a single mother that leads to an unexpected bond.
Dying (2024)

Review preview for Dying

Dying is full of glorious contradictions, many of which occur within the same conversation

Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5

Ensemble drama about members of an estranged family.
Lore (2012)

Review preview for Lore

Where it would have been easy to soften Lore, Shortland refuses to get sentimental, keeping us hanging on the edge with her as events grow more traumatic.

David Graham · 4 out of 5

Teenager Lore and her four younger siblings are left to fend for themselves after her Nazi SS parents are taken into Allied custody.
Never Look Away (2018)

Review preview for Never Look Away

The blurring of fictionalisation is just one of the layers that encourages contemplation almost deep enough to justify the film's expansive canvas.

Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5

A tormented young German artist who has fled to the west becomes convinced he has met the love of his life.
Wild (2016)

Review preview for Wild

The phrase 'brave performance' is vastly overused but there's no doubt Stangenberg puts herself at some risk here.

Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5

A woman begins to disconnect with civilisation after an encounter with a wolf.