THE TORCH – CIFF 2019 QUICKIE REVIEW

If you ask anyone experienced with blues music, if there’s any remaining legends still active in the year 2019, the name “Buddy Guy” is more likely to pop up than anyone on the market. Over the course of an extraordinary 66-year career, Buddy has influenced multiple artists, from Jimi Hendrix to Eric Clapton, and has […]

THE COUNTY – CIFF 2019 QUICKIE REVIEW

What would you do if extreme financial debt threatened to take away your dairy farm that you and your husband had inherited? Take a truck full of milk and spray it all over the office building of your enemies, of course! The County tells the tale of a tough-as-nails dairy farmer named Inga (Arndís Hrönn […]

GHOST TROPIC – CIFF 2019 QUICKIE REVIEW

Khadija (Saadia Bentaïeb) is a cleaning lady who falls asleep on the metro for the first time in twenty years and misses her stop, running all the way to the end of the line. Stuck without a train home and with no money for a taxi, she decides to walk all the way home across […]

8: A SOUTH AFRICAN HORROR STORY – CIFF 2019 QUICKIE REVIEW

What would you do to bring back someone you loved from beyond the grave? This pertinent question is the motivating force behind 8, the latest film by South African director Harold Holscher. The horror feature, which is deeply steeped in South African folklore, tells the story of a white family who moves into an inherited […]

SONG WITHOUT A NAME – CIFF 2019 QUICKIE REVIEW

Political chaos, social instability, kidnapped infants, and under-the-table corruption, Song Without a Name covers all of the aforementioned material with deft skill and care. Based on a true story that was exposed to the public by the director’s own father, Song Without a Name explores the tensions and chaos of 1980s Peru, and a Kafkaesque […]