Film of the day: MORADA (ADDRESS, dir Eva Ângelo, 2022) Curious memory piece about cinema-going in the 20th century that floats along amiably but never gets anywhere, leaving a sensation of incompleteness.
#documentary #film #filmfestival #filmposterart

Film of the day: JEUNE CINÉMA (dir Yves-Marie Mahé, 2022) The history of the now defunct Hyères film festival of “young cinema” entirely told through a treasure trove of archival material; a cautionary tale about the relationship between institutions and artists.
#IFFR2023 #documentary #film #filmfestival #Hyères #filmhistory #cinema #filmposterart

Film of the day: LE TAXI, LE CINÉMA ET MOI (dir Salam Zampaligre, 2022) Scattershot documentary about the stymied career of Burkina Faso director Drissa Touré, fascinating as a snapshot of the problems African cinema faces but too unfocused to be entirely successful as a standalone film.
#IFFR2023 #documentary #AfricanCinema #film #filmfestival #filmposterart

Film of the day:海鷗來過的房間 (KISSING THE GROUND YOU WALKED ON, dir Hong Hang Fei, 2022) Serene tale of coming to terms with one’s limitations and desires, loosely inspired by THE SEAGULL and quite elegantly directed and performed.
#IFFR2023 #Macao #Tchekhov #TheSeagull #literature #theatre #QueerCinema #LGBTQ #film #filmposterart #filmfestival #AsianCinema

Film of the day: آن سوی حصارهای لاله زار (BEYOND THE FENCES OF LÂLEHZÂR, dir Amen Feizabadi, 2023) Intriguing but ultimately obscure combination of essay film and multimedia performance piece that would probably have been more successful as a stage production; on film, it outstays its welcome very quickly. #IFFR2023 #IranianCinema #Teheran #art #dance #music #memory #performance #multimedia #film #filmposterart #filmfestivals

Film of the day: عصب کشی (NUMB, dir Amir Toodehroosta, 2023) Essentially PLAYGROUND set in an Iranian kindergarten, with a sensitive young boy watching the adults and other kids behaving badly; well enough made but unable to transcend its limitations.
#IFFR2023 #IranianCinema #children #drama #kindergarten #adults #Iran #childhood #film #filmposterart #filmfestival

Film of the day: NOTAS SOBRE UN VERANO (NOTES ON A SUMMER, dir Diego Llorente, 2023) Dull, listless drama about the dilemmas of love for a young woman facing the future for the first time; we’ve all seen this before, and usually better done. #IFFR2023 #drama #SpanishCinema #summer #love #boyfriends #film #filmfestival #filmposterart

Film of the day: PACIFICTION (dir Albert Serra, 2022) A psychedelic fever dream in blinding primary neons, literally trans-gender in the way it blithely disregards labels and expectations to explore in languid, extended takes apocalyptic ideas of power and privilege.
#IFFR2023 #film #filmfestival #filmposterart #drama #auteur #WTF #spyfilm #thriller #genre #psychedelia

Film of the day: A TITOKZATOS STYLESI ESET (THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES, dir Péter Lichter, 2022) Curious and curiouser: an Agatha Christie murder mystery told via a collage of video game graphics and manipulated vintage film footage ends up being less than the sum of its parts would suggest; still worth a look for the ingenuity. #IFFR2023 #murdermystery #AgathaChristie #foundfootage #film #filmposterart #experimental

Film of the day: LA PALISIADA (dir Philip Sotnychenko, 2023) The sins of the fathers: opaque meditation on violence and survival that is both ambitious and awkward but not uninteresting. #IFFR2023 #UkrainianCinema #film #filmposterart #filmfestival #rotterdam #drama #thriller #procedural #family

Film of the day: A LOS LIBROS Y A LAS MUJERES CANTO (TO BOOKS AND WOMEN I SING, dir María Elorza, 2022) Can books kill? Delightfully off kilter documentary about life, books and history whose light touch belies the serious issues at its heart. #IFFR2023 #film #filmposterart #filmfestivals #rotterdam #documentary #literature #history #books #women #womenartists #humor

Film of the day: LE SPECTRE DE BOKO HARAM (dir Cyrille Raingou, 2023) Still waters run deep: tranquil documentary on remaking your life after the horror of losing it, classically structured yet emotionally powerful. #IFFR2023 #filmfestival #film #filmposterart #documentary #cameroon #nigeria #childhood #rotterdam

Film of the day: A PRIMEIRA IDADE (THE FIRST AGE, dir Alexander David, 2023) Intriguing, semi-improvised dystopian fable whose formal freedom manages to hold the viewer's interest through a reasonably slight narrative. #IFFR2023 #film #filmposterart #filmfestival #PortugueseCinema #dystopia #utopia #fable #fairytale

Film of the day: THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN (dir Martin McDonagh, 2022) Droll drama of smalltown life in an Irish island in the 1920s that resolves to an absorbing story smartly written and resonantly acted yet perplexingly perfunctorily, almost nondescriptly filmed. #film #Ireland #music #filmposterart #drama #smalltown #community #1920s

Film of the day: HOLY SPIDER (dir Ali Abbasi, 2022) Grippingly constructed serial thriller, referencing the classics of the political thriller while forging its own path as a reflection on who gets heard when and by whom; inspired by true events, yet smartly avoiding all the pitfalls that in itself sets out. #film #filmposterart #thriller #Iran #drama #religion #fundamentalism #procedural

Film of the day: خرس نیست (NO BEARS, dir Jafar Panahi, 2022) Deceptively simple yet fiendishly layered meta-fiction where life and filmmaking mesh to vertiginous effect, meticulously and extraordinarily arranged by a master director working with the simplest of materials: a camera, people and life. #film #filmposterart #iraniancinema #freejafarpanahi

Film of the day: NOVEMBRE (dir Cédric Jimenez, 2022) Streamlined, fast paced procedural based on the real life police response to the Paris attacks of 2015 that plays like a no nonsense capsule of relentless action.

#film #filmposterart #thriller #procedural

Film of the day: AMADEO (dir Vicente Alves do Ó, 2022) Bewilderingly muddled biopic that seems unable to bring modernist artist Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso to life or explain what it really wants to say about him, while surrounding the character with most of the tired genre tropes.

#film #filmposterart #biopics #art #AmadeoDeSouzaCardoso #modernism #painting #portuguesecinema

Film of the day: ENNIO (dir Giuseppe Tornatore, 2021) Clearly a labour of love, this lengthy, wide-ranging documentary is a full-bodied portrait of the renowned film music composer as much as of the Italian film scene from the 1950s onwards; it's a shame it ends in such a redundantly triumphalist note, but it doesn’t affect the total result. #film #filmposterart #documentary #filmmusic #italiancinema #cinema #filmhistory #morricone

Film of the day: BABYLON (dir Damien Chazelle, 2022) Apocalypse then: pre-code, pre-talkies Hollywood depicted as a 20th century Sodom and Gomorrah in a sweeping, overbearing all-star epic of excess and tragedy in pursuit of the American dream; closer to the new Hollywood revisionists of the seventies than to most contemporary filmmaking. #film #filmposterart #hollywood #RoaringTwenties #silentmovies #filmhistory #drama