Tag: Locarno International Film Festival

Closing Time [2018]: ‘Locarno’ Review

Closing Time opens a time portal to the lyrical mundanity of quotidian characters in the stillness of the night. Highly meditative and sedately paced, Closing Time is a poetry in motion, an…

Fortuna [2018]: ‘Locarno’ Review

Who is to decide when it comes to faith? Who makes the final decision when a body aches; both from the inside and outside? In Germinal Roaux’s sophomore feature ‘Fortuna’, a fourteen-year-old girl from…

Those Who Work [2018]: ‘Locarno’ Review

Those Who Work (Ceux qui travaillent) | dir.  Antoine Russbach In one of the psychiatric sessions of Frank (played by Olivier Gourmet), a psychiatrist declares that his love for work is insurmountable, to…

The Fragile House [2018]: ‘Locarno’ Review

The Fragile house is a parable on the wretched condition of the working class and its irreversible consequences on the people around them. Film-maker Lin Zi and cinematographer WU Wei use the…

What Doesn’t Kill Us [2018]: ‘Locarno’ Review

On the onset, What Doesn’t Kill Us looks like a Hollywood ensemble of the likes of Love Actually that deals with love and relationships. But in the able hands of Sandra Nettelbeck,…