Comedy crime caper set during the reunification of Germany. It’s the last week before the East German currency becomes obsolete. Everybody’s been laid off, and are considering how to start all over again now their way of life is ending. A trio of old friends persuade a security worker to let them into the local…
Restless is about Nicky, a kind, considerate, decent, hard-working carer, who is kept awake by her new noisy neighbour until she eventually starts to lose her shit. Loved this movie. Loved how it manages to trace all the ripple effects of this mundane and downplayed problem without ever being heavy-handed about it. It explores how…
This is one of those documentaries where you are surprised folk agreed to be in it at all, given how intimate and sensitive the subject is. Mistress Dispeller follows a wife discovering her husband of many years has begun having an affair with a much younger woman. Mrs Li chooses to deal with the situation…
Absolute bollocks. If you like Alice in Wonderland, you might like this. It’s not for me. To the extent that anything is actually happening in this film, it’s about a stage magician who checks into a hotel only for the exit to disappear, leaving him trapped in a labyrinth filled with a cast of characters.…
I so wanted this to be good. It’s not good. The Teacher is about a Palestinian teacher in the West Bank trying to keep a kid in his class on the straight and narrow while the Occupation impacts every single aspect of their lives. What could be a more relevant story in our current times?…
Skin Deep is a body swap romantic drama. Leyla and Tristan attend a sort of hippy dippy retreat on an island in hopes of gaining more insight into their relationship by swapping bodies with another couple. There they ask is love possible beyond the body, beyond gender, beyond the self? But not really, this is…
Punch is the story of Jamie, a boy in a backwater, small town in New Zealand who is training as a boxer under the tutelage of his alcoholic father, and who has a coming-of-age romance with a local openly queer Maori boy, Whetu. I came to this film wanting to like it so much. Queer…
The Ordinaries is one of the most original films I’ve seen in years. In life, there are Main Characters, Supporting Characters, and Outtakes. Paula is in training for her exam to see if she will be a Main Character like her deceased father, or be relegated to the sidelines like her Supporting Character mother. All…