Jacques Audiard, 2018 With the quality people involved in this film, you’d expect it to be good. And it is.…
The art of the mixt@pe
“A good mixtape can put you in the right mood.” Mike D, Beastie Boys ‘Professor Booty’ I’ve recently been swapping…
Healing hurts
I’ve been suffering recently as my body completes its metamorphosis, getting rid of old, damaged and yeast-infected tissue and replacing…
Linguistic isolation
I was thinking last week about how isolating it is to not be able to express oneself in spoken language.…
Carelia, Internacional con Monumento
Andrés Duque, Spain, 2018 When you go to watch a documentary film, you have expectations – to learn about a…
La Casa de Verano
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, France/Italy, 2018 Nice enough, but utterly forgettable, really. It was good language practice, though it took my…
Cómprame Un Revólver
Julio Hernández Cordón, Mexico, 2018 What a great little film! We’re in a post-apocalyptic lawless Mexico, run by violent drug…
Nuestro Tiempo
Carlos Reygadas, Mexico, 2018 Well, what a disappointment! I loved another of his films so much – Post Tenebras Lux…
In Fabric
Peter Strickland, UK, 2018 It started so well, but I was disappointed by the end. It’s a film of two…
The Mountain
And so starts my D’A Film Festival 2019… Rick Alverson, USA, 2018 Quietly powerful, difficult to watch at times (I…
