Social media satire “Mainstream” by Gia Coppola (Palo Alto) starring Andrew Garfield (The Amazing Spider-Man) and Maya Hawke (Stranger Things) was released at the Venice International Film Festival in September 5 2020 and on VOD on May 7 2021. “Mainstream” tells the story of Frankie (Hawke), a young woman who is bored with her bar-tending
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M (2018) – Review
Film “M” by Finnish director Anna Ericsson won the Grand Prix and Best Feature Film at the Prague Independent Film Festival, and also Best Feature Film and Best Cinematography at the Vienna Independent Film Festival. The film initially premiered at the Venice Critics’ Week in 2018. Ericsson, best known as a singer in her native
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The Factory – Review
Yuri Bykov became known with the film The Fool, an art house social drama. His new film The Factory attracted great interest from his fans who expected another strong drama with pointed social commentary. Nevertheless, the film became a big disappointment. Nothing in this film makes sense; the script is weak, boring, the dialogues consist
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Cold War – Review
Pawel Pawlikowski who won the Academy Award for Ida in 2013, once again received a great deal of attention for his film Cold War. The title Cold War sounds promising, as this time was full of intrigues and there were many stories stranger than fiction connected to the period. But unfortunately the film leaves one
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Profile – Berlinale 2018 Review
Well-known director and producer Timur Bekmambetov presented his film Profile at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival. It was part of the Panorama section, where it won the Panorama Audience Award. The film tells the story of a young female journalist who received an assignment to write a story about European women sent into sexual
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7 Days in Entebbe – Berlinale 2018 Review
7 Days in Entebbe was presented at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival by director José Padilha and gave of an unpleasant impression. The film is based on real events of the hijacking of a passenger plane in 1976. The main character are the German hijackers portrayed by Daniel Brühl and Rosamund Pike. It is
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Dovlatov – Berlinale 2018 Review
One of the highlights of the 68th Berlin International Film Festival was the film Dovlatov, directed by Alexei German Jr. It was screened in the main competition program. A. German Jr. is not a Berlinale newcomer — his film Under the Electric Clouds won the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution for Cinematography. Sergei Dovlatov
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Eva – Berlinale 2018 Review
The film Eva by Benoît Jacquot was shown at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival. The film stars Gaspard Ulliel and Isabelle Huppert. The point of this film was to show the relations between a young man and a dangerously seductive woman. The choice of the lead actress made the film unsuccessful and doomed it
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Damsel – Berlinale 2018 Review
Robert Pattinson is one of the most important film stars who visited Berlinale 2018. He presented the film Damsel, directed by the Zellner brothers. Unfortunately the film was a great disappointment. It was an attempt to create a modern comedic Western. In it Robert Pattinson played one of the strangest roles in his career, he
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The Shape of Water – Review
The Shape of Plagiarism of director Guillermo del Toro American film The Shape of Water was awarded several prestigious prizes including the Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival, received thirteen Oscar nominations and got mostly positive reviews from film critics. Recently the film The Shape of Water came into the center of attention due to
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Loving Vincent – Review
Loving Vincent is a masterfully created tribute to Vincent van Gogh. Loving Vincent gives the audience an unique chance to get into the mysterious world of Van Gogh’s art. Creators of the film had a very complicated task; to paint in oil more than 65.000 frames, reproducing the style of a genius. Some of the
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mother! – Review
Bad Mother Darren Aranofsky has shown his talent of an imitator of auteur cinema in his new film mother!. The spectator was a victim of butchered cinematography – mostly badly composed of close-ups and shaky-cam. But if some auteur filmmakers have limited cinematographic possibilities due to a lack of funds, in the case of Darren
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Just Call Me God: A dictator’s final speech Review
Just Call Me God – John Malkovich is a dictator in a darkly funny stage play. Just Call Me God: A dictator’s final speech is the third stage play with Hollywood star John Malkovich (Dangerous Liaisons, Being John Malkovich) and Austrian director Michael Sturminger. Their previous collaborations were “The Infernal Comedy” and “The Giacomo Variations”,
