Watching it in a theatre resounding with sighs and sniffs. By the end I was just sobbing into my hands and had to go wash my face in the sink just make a decent showing of myself. It’s about a family divided during the Cultural Revolution in China, trying to heal in the aftermath. It’s…
You would love it. A beautiful, mostly dialogueless, story about a boy’s discovery of the world, and its disappointments, with a heavy emphasis on class conflict.
A silly funny horror about a guy fusing to a clown costume and transforming into a child-eating demon.
God, they really take care of you when you go to a FrightFest movie, I feel like a VIP.
No bad.
I wanted to see this coz pretty much every film is made in New Zealand but how many have you seen actually set there? Especially pre-colonial? For that reason, a by-the-numbers boy-avenged-his-father plot remains engaging because it’s in the larger framework of a world we never see. Very much enjoyed it.
This was my most looked forward to film of the festival, with an opening line in the blurb of ” In the fictitious Iranian ghost town, a lonely, hijab-wearing female vampire stalks the streets by night in search of prey.” And I fucking loved it! It had me from the very first scene of a…
The Cut is about Nazaret, a survivor of the Armenian genocide. Grim, unsurprisingly. A good movie to compliment Theeb, because the world Theeb walks out into is the world of Nazaret.
Coming out of Limited Partnership howling and greeting, as are most of the audience. One of those films that make you realise what a debt people like me, who’ve had it so easy, owe to those that have come before and had to fight for every little thing.