Des Teufel Bad (The Devil’s Bath) by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala: a small farming community in 18th-century Austria, a suffering young married woman – Agnes – obsessed with the idea of having a child, and Wolf – her husband, flanked by his brittle mother – unable to grasp the malaise eating away at his […]
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The Settlers (Los colonos) by Felipe Galvez Haberle – in which some of the racist and national violence of a fledgling state – Chile – is brought to light: the twentieth century has just dawned, and in South America topographical measures are being taken to map out a territory according to the directives of the […]
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Do not expect too much from the end of the world: but from what world? This is the first question posed by Radu Jude’s latest film, a (very) full-length feature combining modern black & white with the almost nostalgic color of a bygone East-Communist era. The perfectly absurd film begins with poor Angela, a young […]
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