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IFFR 2010

ETRANGE 2011: MEAT (aka VLEES) review

by Matthew Lee, September 19, 2011 4:11 PM


Victor Nieuwenhuijs and Maartje Seyferth's bizarre, chilling little character drama Meat certainly covers all the bases. Nearly every major synonym, metaphor or other interpretation of that one word is in there somewhere. Mostly it seems to be about people who've...

BIFF 2011: TWO IN THE WAVE review

by Matthew Lee, April 29, 2011 9:31 PM


Beautifully structured and produced, stuffed with satisfying little nuggets of information on the partnership between legendary directors Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, Emmanuel Laurent's Two In The Wave is a great example of how to put together a populist...

Room for one more? It's Eight Rooks' TOP TEN FOR 2010

by Matthew Lee, January 10, 2011 6:47 PM


And to think I thought it would be a dull year. I might not have been able to join in the fun on the other side of the Atlantic, but the IFFR in Rotterdam (thanks to fellow Twitcher Ard...

LIFF 2010: ALL THAT I LOVE review

by Matthew Lee, December 21, 2010 5:47 PM


Jacek Borcuch's All That I Love is definitely a fantastic little film: just bear in mind you've almost certainly seen a great deal of it before. The story of a teenager growing up in 1980s Poland, set against the...

IFFR 2010: an interview with Tsai Ming-Liang!

by Ard Vijn, December 9, 2010 9:38 AM


This year, Malaysian / Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-Liang visited the International Film Festival Rotterdam to present his latest film "Visage" ("Face"), a curious movie to say the least. For starters that film doesn't need to bring in any money as... More >>

IFFR 2010: VISAGE Review

by Ard Vijn, December 8, 2010 9:21 PM


A Taiwanese director visits The Louvre to make a film. Uniquely, for "Visage" that sentence doubles as both a plot summary AND as a description of what happened for real behind the scenes, without the film being a documentary... This... More >>

Grimm Up North 2010: AMER review

by Matthew Lee, November 22, 2010 9:14 AM


Amer definitely wears its heart on its sleeve. Directors Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani are in love with the giallo, the pulpy Italian thrillers which had their heyday in the 70s and 80s and subsequently influenced a generation of...

MATSUMOTO's SYMBOL: Review

by Niels Matthijs, May 17, 2010 6:06 AM


Talk to anyone who's already had the pleasure of seeing Symbol and they will warn you it is best to go in knowing as little as possible. Which, by the way, might actually explain the lacking amount of reviews for...

IFFR / IMAGINE 2010 : SYMBOL Review

by Ard Vijn, May 13, 2010 11:58 AM


When we here at Twitch posted the very first teaser for Hitoshi Matsumoto's "Symbol" nearly a year ago, we all wondered whether the man was a genius or if he had disappeared up his own ass.  Fear not: with his sophomore... More >>

TRIBECA 2010: MY QUEEN KARO Review

by Ben Umstead, April 27, 2010 9:30 PM


In Dorothee van den Berghe's second feature, ten-year-old, Karo (Anna Franziska Jager) is on her way from Belgium to start a new life with her free radical parents (Deborah Francois & Matthias Schoenaerts) in Amsterdam.  Lovingly crafted with a wonder...
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