Titane (Review)

I distinctly remember being stunned by the trailer for Julia Ducournau's Titane. It was hardly surprising, really, her debut feature, Raw, is one of my all-time favourite films. My prevailing feeling from Titane's trailer was one of wonder: how could this staggering barrage of imagery all fit into one film? Unfortunately, this reaction turned out … Continue reading Titane (Review) →

In My Room (Review)

Towards the start of Mati Diop's (director of the fantastic feature, Atlantics) lockdown based short film, we see her writing an email in which she is explaining her pitch for the film we are watching. It's playfully meta, yet also incredibly vérité, and sets the tone for the rest of the film. We are seeing … Continue reading In My Room (Review) →

Bacurau (Review)

Starting out as a beautiful presentation of a distinct culture and identity, and ending up as a brutal defence of those very same concepts, Bacurau is a very impressive - and very important - film. Its clear tonal shift from start to end - functioning like a vérité exploration of an isolated, rural community in Brazil … Continue reading Bacurau (Review) →

NastyPALs 18: Possession

Wait, who put this art film in my video nasty? https://soundcloud.com/user-782108692/18-possession

Parasite (Review)

There's something inherently appealing about a film that's able to be consistently surprising; however, there's something really special about a film that is able to stay utterly consistent at the same time. Parasite is a film that trades in escalation and increasing levels of conflict - a film that keeps adding more spinning plates through … Continue reading Parasite (Review) →

Atlantics (Review)

David Foster Wallace once wrote that every love story is a ghost story. It’s an evocative statement that cuts to the core of the everyday nature of ghosts - not ethereal beings but the literal past clinging onto the present. Atlantics, the remarkable debut feature from Mati Diop (that scooped the Grand Prix at Cannes), … Continue reading Atlantics (Review) →