How a film about a dream trip to Russia turned into a tragicomedy about love and corruption.
6.8
… more successful as an exuberant exercise in genre pastiche than as a story that leaves a lasting emotional impression.
Following its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival, Isabelle Stever and Ukrainian screenwriter Anna Melikova’s deeply personal drama arrives at the Busan International Film Festival.
Ahead of the world premiere of her feature debut Föa – Once Upon a Future at the Busan International Film Festival, Italian filmmaker Margherita Ferrari speaks exclusively to FilmInk about the
9.2
Marre constructs the film out of light, almost weightless moments that repeatedly collide with the dead end of history.
9
… ironic, politically alert and suspicious of every supposedly progressive position.
8.8
The film can look almost like a holiday postcard one moment and like a premonition of catastrophe the next … That contrast is ultimately what makes La Gradiva so powerful.
9
…. funny, suspenseful, tender and occasionally bizarre.
7.7
…. a beautifully crafted adaptation that respects Jane Austen while giving the story a fresh cinematic life.
8
… a painful portrait of Ukrainian youth …