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Tag: Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
‘A Second Life’ Review: Agathe Rousselle, Star of Palme d’Or Winner ‘Titane,’ Carries a Compellingly Off-the-Cuff Paris Movie
Film directors, like the characters they depict on screen, can sometimes learn from their mistakes. This is certainly the case with French DP turned filmmaker Laurent Slama, whose new feature A Second Life vastly improves on his Netflix debut Paris Is Us, which he made under the pseudonym Elisabeth Vogler.…
‘Perla’ Review: An Artist Is Trapped on Both Sides of the Iron Curtain in a Tense Soviet-Era Saga
Being a single mom and a successful painter is already a tough act to maintain. But doing so as an exile who escaped the Soviet bloc and suffered deep trauma for doing so, is even more distressing — especially when your past comes back to haunt you. Such are the…
‘Broken Voices’ Testimonial: A Lady’s Dreams Are Smashed by Sexual Predation in an Artistic Dramatization From the Czech Republic
Browsing an acquainted topic with special and an eye for psychological information, Czech writer-director Ondrej Provaznik supplies a discreetly effective teenage dramatization with his newest function, Broken Voices ( Sbormistr). Motivated by the real tale of the Bambini di Praga (Kid of Prague), a popular Czech young people carolers whose…
‘The Luminous Life’ Overview: A Breezy and Melancholic Portrait of a Portuguese Zoomer Searching for Love, Plus a Regular Job
Movies about 20-something characters drifting aimlessly by way of life tend to float themselves, however that can be a part of their allure. Not each film must be a nail-biter, and never each plot must be engineered like a Maserati. Among the greatest examples of the style — Dazed and…
‘Damaged Voices’ Evaluation: A Lady’s Goals Are Shattered by Sexual Predation in an Clever Drama From the Czech Republic
Navigating a well-recognized topic with delicacy and a mind for emotional element, Czech writer-director Ondrej Provaznik delivers a subtly highly effective adolescent drama along with his newest function, Damaged Voices (Sbormistr). Impressed by the true story of the Bambini di Praga (Kids of Prague), a famend Czech youth refrain whose…
‘Bidad’ Review: In This Bracing Protest Drama, a Talented Singer Uses Her Voice to Take on the Iranian Regime
Depictions of Iran in mainstream U.S. media tend to show a country filled with religious zealots burning American or Israeli flags in the streets. But anyone who’s seen a good Iranian movie, whether from masters like Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar Panahi and Asghar Farhadi, or from a budding generation of iconoclastic…
‘The Luminous Life’ Evaluation: A Windy and Melancholic Picture of a Portuguese Zoomer Searching For Love, And Also a Steady Work
Movies concerning 20-something personalities wandering aimlessly with life tend to wander themselves, yet that can additionally become part of their appeal. Not every motion picture requires to be a nail-biter, and not every story requires to be crafted like a Maserati. Several of the very best instances of the style--…
‘Jimmy Jaguar’ Review: An Atypical Hungarian Horror Flick That’s More Provocative Than Frightening
Hungarian auteur Bence Fliegauf is about as far from the mainstream as you can get, although he has tried his hand at various Hollywood genres — including the 2010 English-language sci-fi flick Womb, which starred Eva Green and Lesley Manville. But his eclectic range of movies are often dark and…
‘Caravan’ Review: A Tough and Intimate Czech Drama Carried by a Superb Lead Actress
Actress Ana Geislerova may be something of a household name in the Czech Republic, where she broke out in the mid-’90s and then scooped up lots of awards in the early aughts with films like Innocence and Something Like Happiness. But beyond co-starring with Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan in…