ATLANTICS – CIFF 2019 QUICKIE REVIEW

Altantics isn’t billed as a ghost story, but the lingering presence of spirits can be felt throughout its run time. They haunt the film, like sailors lost at sea. Mati Diop’s debut feature — and the first film by a black woman to be selected for the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival — […]

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 […]

AND THEN WE DANCED – CIFF 2019 QUICKIE REVIEW

Dance is perhaps the most fluid of art forms, and the camerawork featured in Levan Akin’s latest film And Then We Danced successfully matches that same smooth movement. His camera glides, dips, and twirls with the grace of a ballerina, pulling in audiences to his spiritually uplifting coming-out story. Merab (Levan Gelbakhiani) has been training […]