This year, Cannes critics were largely united in their belief that Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Minotaur and Pawel Pawlikowski’s Fatherland were the best films in the competition. Both films won major prizes,
The Sydney Film Festival always offers up a diverse and fascinating array of features, docos and events…and this year is no different. After a stroll through the extensive 2026 programme,
8.2
… deliberately controlled, almost austere.
8
Fatherland is not only about the past. It is a warning about the cyclical nature of history and the dangers of forgetting.
5
… spectacle without substance: a film that gestures toward scandal and intensity but offers little emotional resonance or intellectual insight in return.
8.5
The film’s greatest revelation is Sandra Hüller’s performance
6.8
… a stylised masquerade that invites the viewer to surrender to its strange, campy logic.
Like many Australians, David Stratton has been an omnipresent fixture of my cinephilia as long as I can remember: not just via the SBS Movie Show and the ABC’s At
Recently winning Best Live Action Short at the Sydney Film Festival, Faceless will now screen at the Melbourne International Film Festival.
The Blue Trail is an intriguing film from the Brazilian writer/director Gabriel Mascaro. Arthouse movie buffs may recall his 2015 film Neon Bull. Mascaro has not made a lot of