Berlinale 2020 Review: Never Rarely Sometimes Always
The best movie of this year’s competition is not as showy as Siberia, not as experimental as DAU.Natasha, not as mythical as Undine. It’s…
Berlinale 2020 Review: Berlin Alexanderplatz
Anyone that’s spent time in Berlin knows them: young African men roaming the big parks in Kreuzberg and Neukölln, jobless, often undocumented, forced to…
Berlinale 2020 Review: Siberia
One of the most fascinating - and without a doubt the strangest - competition entries starts on a conventional note. A spoken word prologue…
Berlinale 2020 Review: The Assistant
Do you hate your job? After a documentary reckoning with the case of child beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey, Kitty Green returns to the Berlinale…
Berlinale 2020 Review: Los Conductos
Camilo Restrepo’s film is immersive and intense. It is also subtle, sublime, at times soporific. It’s a challenging watch and so dense that its…
Berlinale 2020 Review: El Prófugo
A woman is under the influence. First time we see her she is watching a series of close-ups on a movie screen, possibly of…
Berlinale 2020 Review: My Salinger Year
Dear Mr Salinger! We demand answers. How could a person as firmly established in the literary canon as you inspire such a lukewarm movie?…
Berlinale 2020: Movies That Should Be On Your Agenda
A little bit less than a month – and the 70th Berlinale is upon us! This time with a new head – Carlo Chatrian from…
AW14F 2019 Review: Fire Will Come
Oliver Laxe’s third feature film Fire Will Come premiered earlier this year in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section and went home with the Jury Prize….