Adelaide Film Festival Review: The Order
Justin Kurzel is terrified about the state of the world. He’s terrified about the impact of violence from those who inflict it upon society, others, and themselves. He’s terrified of how easily the pa…
Review
1212 posts
Adelaide Film Festival Review: Went Up the Hill
The contemporary antipodean Gothic is an underexplored and underutilised genre. Australian and New Zealand filmmakers make excellent horror films, wonderful outback noirs, blistering inner city dramas…
Adelaide Film Festival Review: Maria
“Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore.” Maria the final film in Pablo Larraín’s trilogy of twentieth century iconic women proves one thing about the Chilean director: he knows how to cast a leading la…
Adelaide Film Festival Review: All We Imagine As Light
Tender and beautifully observed Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light is part of a turning point in Indian cinema where the lives of women are given the spotlight. Like Shuchi Talati's 2024 Girl…
Adelaide Film Festival Review: Emilia Pérez
“If you listen. You accept.” Jacques Audiard’s genre mixing musical rises from the streets of Mexico with a blistering rage. Sinners, saints, and martyrs merge in a struggle for salvation – a moment…
Black Box Diaries: Shiori Itō’s Unyielding Fight for Justice, Empowering Survivors, and Exposing the Failures of the Japanese Legal System
Black Box Diaries screens at the Adelaide Film Festival on 26 & 30 October Shiori Itō’s story is not just one of resilience; it’s an unflinching act of courage that left me shaken, inspired, and…
Adelaide Film Festival: A New Kind of Wilderness is Suffused with Magic, Tragedy, and Gaining Wisdom
A New Kind of Wilderness screens at the Adelaide Film Festival on 26 & 29 October 2024. “This place has everything” – Falk “Except pet whales.” – Ulv Maria Vatne wrote on her blog WILD + FREE “……
Adelaide Film Festival Review: The Wolves Always Come at Night
Documentarian Gabrielle Brady immerses herself in the act of collaborative storytelling, working alongside her subjects to bring their truth to life in an act of radical hybrid filmmaking. In her late…
Adelaide Film Festival Review: Anora
Ani (Mikey Madison) works at The Headquarters in Manhattan, a large adult club with exotic dancers, private rooms, and huge bar tabs. Sean Baker follows Ani around what appears to be an average night…
Saturday Night is Poignant Pandemonium and an Exhilarating Jump Back in Time
“What kind of show is it?” Copper Hoffman’s NBC weekend producer asks Gabriel LaBelle’s Lorne Michaels of the television show that’s supposed to go live at 11.30pm on Saturday night, Oct 11, 1975. Lor…
Conclave Showcases Ralph Fiennes’ Decades Long Mastery of His Craft
Edward Berger’s adaptation of Robert Harris’ Holy See mystery/thriller Conclave is a mature film functioning as a character study of its accidental investigator and the character of the contemporary C…
London Film Festival Review: Anora is Another Triumph for Sean Baker and a Moment of Arrival for Mikey Madison
Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winning Anora is a crowd-pleasing triumph which continues his impassioned exploration of people living on the margins of American society, drawn from elements of classic cinema…