Fucking fantastic! This is gonna come out at the cinema after the festival and you should all go see it. It’s about Swiss women lobbying for the vote in 1970. Yeah, you heard me, Swiss women didn’t get the vote until the 70s. The movie is warm, funny, moving. I wasn’t all that excited going…
A film about a guy coming to terms with his autism when he meets and falls in love with a girl with autism. I’ve seen this story before and there’s not much new here in terms of plot, but it is good to see it being portrayed using actors with disabilities instead of just being…
A Garden State-esque film about a smartphone-free, crocheting, modernist architecture fanatic who wants to go to college but has to stay home and look after her meth mum. She meets a dude with a distant dad, and together they discuss the healing power of art, and when to hold on and when to let go…
A film about two men who agreed to transport the body of a sheikh to his homeland for burial. They are accompanied on this journey by a Clarence-esque angel-fool. The film is slow and silent, like the uncompromising landscape. The vistas are beautiful but I felt like it lost its way a wee bit.
A documentary about the treasure seekers scouring the Rockies for Forrest Finn’s hidden million-dollar treasure. There’s a computer programmer-turned-cowboy, a retired cop, a guy getting chemo, all tramping over the wilderness. The film kinda examines what each of them is looking for and how this treasure hunt provides them with an opportunity to find it.…
A film about a Swedish man with autism, several disabilities, facial deformity and a recent head injury who goes on to compete in the Nordic boules championship. The start’s a bit slow but it’s good once it gets going.
A solid but ultimately unremarkable escape from the Nazis movie.
Whoa. Just came out of Clash, a film about the 2013 Egyptian riots following the military overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood presidency installed after the fall of Mubarak, but shot entirely within the back of one police van. It basically spans a day and a night all within one claustrophobic location, as supporters of the…
A film in which a prodigal son returns to a family blown apart when he testified against his brother in a murder trial years before. Excellent performances, everyone serving time for one person’s act, lives irrevocably changed, struggling to reconcile even for a moment. Solid film.
Fucking hilarious! Laughed my ass off! Such a feel good movie, you should definitely go see it. Has the kind of life-affirming vibe as something like Muriel’s Wedding. Highly recommend! Also like it for showing hipsters positively. Instead of wheeling out the lazy trope of cynicism and hyper-clique-iness, they’re people with passions and creativity and…