Posts Tagged ‘Berlinale’

Reported Missing (2012)

Reported Missing (2012)
Context, context, context. The major schools of literary criticism (the methods of which can be applied to art in most media) revolve around the question of context: the social, personal, cultural and artistic frames and circumstances under which a work of art was created. Should a work of art be able...
April 25th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

War Witch (2012)

War Witch (2012)
Set within civil war in Africa, we meet Komona (Rachel Mwanza), a twelve year old girl whose village is destroyed by rebels. After her parents are killed she is forced to join them as a child soldier, living in the jungle and surviving off magic milk from the tree which gives her special powers to [...]
February 20th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

A Royal Affair (2012)

A Royal Affair (2012)
Beginning around 1766 and spanning over several years, A Royal Affair is from the perspective of Caroline Mathilde (played brilliantly by Alicia Vikander) who marries the psychologically unhinged King of Denmark Christian VII (magnificently portrayed by Mikkel Boe Følsgaard). The beautiful young woman...
February 20th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

Home for the Weekend (2012)

Home for the Weekend (2012)
As the title suggests this story centres mainly around one weekend. Two brothers Marco (Lars Eidinger) and Jakob (Sebastian Zimmler) return to their parent’s beautiful house in the countryside after an invite, believing it to be a rare family get together. Their father announces he is selling his publishing...
February 20th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

Postcards from the Zoo (2012)

Postcards from the Zoo (2012)
Lana is abandoned by her father in Jakarta zoo at a young age and so she is raised by the community that lives in the zoo. When Lana is grown up (played by Ladya Cheryl) she continues to live and work in the zoo, gaining knowledge of the animals and being fascinated by the lone [...]
February 20th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

Berlinale 2012, and the winner is……

Berlinale 2012, and the winner is……
This year’s Berlinale has been eclectic to say the least, although there have been running themes throughout the festival. Africa has been a recurrent location for a lot of the stories being told; slow burner Aujourd’Hui (Today), the harrowing Rebelle (War Witch), colonial era Tabu and even documentary...
February 20th, 2012 | Feature, News | Read More

As Luck Would Have It (2011)

As Luck Would Have It (2011)
There has been much hype surrounding director Álex de la Iglesia’s previous film The Last Circus (2010), the film winning three awards at the Venice Film Festival and receiving some great reviews from doing the rounds at other festivals. So I was very intrigued by the director’s latest La Chispa...
February 19th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

Iron Sky (2012)

Iron Sky (2012)
One of the most talked about films at this year’s Berlin Film Festival has to be Finnish sci-fi comedy Iron Sky, reportedly the most expensive film to come out of Finland with a budget of $10 million. $1 million of this was contributed by online fans that had been following the project for years. So...
February 18th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

Tabu (2012)

Tabu (2012)
Many films have been described as love letters to cinema recently, The Artist and Hugo (2011) both garnering critical and commercial success for being such. Miguel Gomes’ latest film Tabu, the Portuguese director incidentally used to be a film critic, gloriously achieves this but in a much more subtle...
February 18th, 2012 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

Side by Side (2012)

Side by Side (2012)
This fascinating documentary takes a look at the birth and evolution of digital cinema technology and compares it to film, considering the advantages and disadvantages and exploring the future of both. What makes this documentary particularly strong is the people it acquires to participate in the discussion,...
February 18th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More
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