The fourth Volvo Scandinavian Film Festival takes off from 11 July with a slate of 20 films from the Nordic region. The program opens with Aki Kaurismäki’s The Other Side of Hope. The film won Silver Bear for Best Director[…]
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Tag: foreign language film
Monsieur Chocolat – movie review
A lively French box-office hit, Monsieur Chocolat details a fascinating rise-and-fall story. This is the tale of the first popular Afro-Cuban artist on the French stage. His real name was Rafael Padilla; but he became known as Chocolat. Padilla was only[…]
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Graduation – movie review
Slow moving, intelligent and thought-provoking, Graduation is a slice-of-life piece tackles fear, honesty and morality. Forty-nine year-old Romeo Aldea (Adrian Titieni), a physician living in a small mountain town in Transylvania, has raised his daughter, Eliza (Maria Dragus), with the[…]
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CLOSED: Win a copy of The Disappearance on DVD
– The Disappearance – Available now on DVD and Blu-ray We have 3 DVD copies of the film thanks to Acorn Entertainment. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE This intimate, character-driven drama traces the increasing trauma of[…]
Read moreRaw – movie review
Man’s base animal instincts – or, in this case, woman’s – are on show in Raw; and I must tell you, the results aren’t pretty. Justine’s (Garance Marillier’s) parents are vets and committed vegans. At 16, Justine is a brilliant[…]
Read moreThings to Come – movie review
Subtle is the key word in describing Things to Come; a sometimes tortuously slow-moving slice-of-life drama. Nathalie (Isabelle Huppert) teaches philosophy at a college in Paris. She’s passionate about her work and particularly enjoys passing on the pleasure of thinking[…]
Read moreCLOSED: Win tickets to the Spanish Film Festival
– Spanish Film Festival – Only in cinemas from 18 April 2017 We have 5 double in-season passes (one session each) thanks to Palace Cinemas. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Visit the official website HERE Exclusively at Palace Barracks &[…]
Read moreFrantz – movie review
The prolific Francois Ozon is one of France’s most stylish and intriguing filmmakers, especially with visually sumptuous melodramas like Swimming Pool winning great critical acclaim and reaching international audiences. His films deal with sex and death, and often have a[…]
Read moreThe Salesman – movie review
Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi writes and directs gritty slice-of-life dramas and The Salesman, which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, continues that fine tradition. The moral quandary at the heart of this picture is what helps maintains interest.[…]
Read moreToni Erdmann – movie review
As a life lesson, Toni Erdmann is a unique and quirky offering that continually surprises. It contains the mundane and the outrageous. The constant is humour – at times great dollops of it, interspersed with a gentler comic scene or[…]
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