This Life of Mine is a small delight of a film
French writer, actor, and director Sophie Fillières tackles the frustrations of middle-age and gendered invisibility in her curious dramedy This Life of Mine. It’s important to note that Sophie Filliè…
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Audrey Diwan's Emmanuelle is more neurotic than erotic
Audrey Diwan’s reimagining of Emmanuelle is dull, muddled, and more neurotic than erotic. The Hong Kong set film searches for steam and neon in Wong Kar-wai’s Chunking Mansions and stages a typhoon to…
Borderline is a riotous odyssey of dark humour and unhinged mayhem
Jimmy Warden made a name for himself with Cocaine Bear, a film so outrageous it had audiences both laughing and recoiling in shock. Now, he’s taking the helm as director with Borderline, a dark comedy…
Alliance Française French Film Festival Reviews: Bolero & Miss Violet
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. This podcast is recorded in Naarm, Victoria with critic Nadine Whitney review…
Hard Truths is another must see Mike Leigh event film
“You don’t know my suffering. You don’t know my pain… I’m not a well woman.” – Pansy Although I imagine the great social realist Mike Leigh would be horrified, while I was watching Marianne Jean-Bapt…
Mickey 17 is a consistently engaging and absurd minor work for Bong Joon-ho
South Korean maestro Bong Joon-ho doesn’t hold out much hope for humanity in general. From his first feature Barking Dogs Never Bite in 2000 through to his masterwork Parasite his recurring themes are…
No Other Land is a galvanising and essential piece of documentary filmmaking
“Get used to failing. You’re a loser.” Basel to Yuval in 2019. Basel Adra speaks at least three languages. He has a law degree. He will never practice law. He will work in construction in Hebron if h…
Osgood Perkins’ The Monkey is a pantomime of perverseness
Osgood Perkins’ version of Stephen King’s 1980 short story ‘The Monkey’ is a splatter comedy. The film should come with the warning, “Abandon subtext all ye who enter here,” with an addendum of, “Embr…
Sundance Review: Sukkwan Island not remote enough for dad outrunning himself
Nature’s an easy place to idealise. Both the tortured artist’s getaway of preference and where wayward souls (at least in movies) go for renewed purpose, nature keeps us honest—or so we like to believ…
Bonus Track is the fantastic romance that queer kids deserve
There is a fairy tale sweetness to Julia Jackman’s queer coming of age film Bonus Track that makes the relatively rote storyline charming rather than grating. Written by Mike Gilbert from a story by J…
Come Again: Nicholas Verso’s Invisible Boys is the emotional coming of age gay drama we need right now
Nicholas Verso intimately understands the emotional rollercoaster that comes with that stage of existence where, thanks to puberty, ageing, and this cruel thing we call life, you find yourself as a te…
Charles Williams’ Inside is top tier Australian cinema
“The worst of men, they’ve got a little bit of good in them and that will be their undoing.” Charles Williams’ brutal and blazing Australian prison drama Inside is underscored by its immense humanism…