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“As a visceral document about the moment a country solidified its new identity it’s an impressive feat of curation and editing” Ukraine is a young country. Even though it gained independence from the USSR in 1991, the true birth of the modern Ukraine took place between November 2013 and February 2014, during the Euromaidan protests […]

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“Jim Queen understands that the most urgent political cinema is sometimes the least solemn.” There is a specific kind of courage required to be truly funny about something that genuinely matters. Not the courage of the provocateur, who deploys outrage as a shield, nor the courage of the moralist, who wields gravity as a cudgel — […]

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“In Lukas Dhont’s war film, love is the most radical act” Before there was a screenplay, there were photographs. Black-and-white images, preserved in the institutional silence of a war archive, of young men in improvised dresses — not costumes so much as acts of collective imagination, assembled from whatever ingenuity and necessity could provide, worn […]

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Presented in the Quinzaine des Cinéastes, the story of La Perra by Dominga Sotomayor unfolds on a remote island in southern Chile, where a solitary woman’s encounter with an abandoned puppy becomes the catalyst for confronting long-buried trauma and fractured relationships. In an interview with Natalia Serebriakova at the Cannes Film Festival, the director reflects […]


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“Wickedly funny and gushingly bloody” It’s always nice to see an actor or actress at work who understood the assignment. Maika Monroe, who first rose to prominence in the Cannes surprise It Follows, is back for yet another slasher, this time in Zachary Wigon’s delightfully demented Gothic horror Victorian Psycho, a perfectly lighthearted, ‘turn your […]

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