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Dean Archibald-Smith
Jul 27, 2021
Chi Chi [Chelsey d'Adesky, USA, 2020]
Much like Brian De Palma, D’Adesky is adept at deconstructing narrative tropes and reconstructing them with a kind of metatextual irony...
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Sam Briggs
Apr 4, 2021
Reclaiming the Negative [Mike Beech, UK/South Korea, 2020]
Since the Korean war ended in 1953, approximately 31,000 North Koreans have defected, taking the perilous journey across the southern...
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Sally Roberts
Apr 4, 2021
Ghost of a Chance [Manes Duerr, USA, 2019]
Never give up on your dreams. Many of us are told this repeatedly from a young age well into adulthood. Following a soon-to-be father on...
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Sally Roberts
Apr 4, 2021
Fancy a Cuppa? [Lotte Cassidy, UK, 2020]
Scented gel pens, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air [USA, 1990-96] and unwrapping what seemed like endless Fruit Winders, while not universal,...
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Thom Carter
Mar 9, 2021
SHORT FOCUS 2019: August Sun [Franco Volpi, Argentina, 2018]
In chapter five of Franz Kafka’s The Trial, Joseph K. is passing along a corridor in his office when he happens upon a storage closet...
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Sally Roberts
Mar 7, 2021
SHORT FOCUS 2019: August Sun [Franco Volpi, Argentina, 2018]
August Sun achieves what many short filmmakers try and fail to do: high emotional impact.
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Will Whitehead
Mar 6, 2021
FLTV Faves: Seabreeze [Shawn Vasquez & Fatty Soprano, Canada, 2021]
Seabreeze is a poignant and heartbreaking glimpse into the immediate aftermath of tragedy. The film, depicting the breakdown of a...
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Mia Parnall
Mar 5, 2021
Rattle [Joe Pettit, UK, 2019]
In Joe Pettit's unsettling Rattle, the familiar landscape of a suburban summer plays host to an exploration of the psychosexual anxieties...
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Dean Archibald-Smith
Jan 5, 2021
Soyka [Anastasiya Sergienya, USA, 2020]
Anna is a bird that has flown the nest. A Belarusian immigrant finding her way in the bustling metropolis of New York City...
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Thom Carter
May 11, 2020
Deer Season [Cameron McHarg, USA, 2018]
In its preoccupations and formal economy Deer Season feels of a lineage of twentieth-century American stories, but the men’s experiences are
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