A somewhat pedestrian documentary about a group of misguided eco-warriors becomes a captivating exercise in car crash voyeurism as the members of the bizarre Fuck For Forest campaign head from Berlin to the depths of the Amazon basin to spread their singular vision and hopefully save the planet. Their biggest obstacle, however, proves to be […] Read more »
I managed to miss this at a couple of different festivals last year, before finally catching up with it this week on iTunes. The feature debut from Eron Sheean stars Michael Eklund as Geoff, a troubled geneticist called to Dresden to help a team of research students. There he discovers old flame and former student […] Read more »
I had heard decidedly mixed things about Ryu Seung-wan’s latest Korean action thriller, so was pleasantly surprised by this neo-Cold War tale of duplicitous North and South Korean agents working in Berlin. Ha Jung-woo is the North Korean agent who is told that his wife (Jeon Ji-hyun) is under suspicion of being a double agent. […] Read more »
After expressing her desire to leave East Germany, physician Barbara (Nina Hoss) is banished to a small hospital in a remote part of the country. There she is occasionally visited by her lover from the West, and together they plot her escape. However, the more time she spends in this sleepy, but generally rather pleasant […] Read more »
The Wachowskis team up with Tom Tykwer to tackle David Mitchell’s multi-stranded parable, with polarizing results. Read my review here Read more »
After F.W. Murnau’s move to the USA, this ambitious co-production sees the German director head down to the islands of the South Pacific for a classic tale of forbidden love and adventure featuring an almost entirely local native cast. When the local “Godess” dies, the head of the neighbouring tribe is granted the local beauty […] Read more »
Josef von Sternberg’s cautionary tale is best-remembered for Marlene Dietrich’s risque performance as a small-town showgirl, but in truth the film is really about Emil Jannings’ bewitched school professor. When he traces his adolescent students to the titular strip club, the professor is himself caught under the spell of the bewitching Lola Lola, which sends […] Read more »
HANNA is a tough sell – an intelligent, deliberately paced action thriller with a young female protagonist, helmed by a director famed for his Keira Knightley period dramas. HANNA is pretty much the antithesis of Zack Snyder’s SUCKER PUNCH. While that film was interested solely in the shiny surface of its central conceit – pretty […] Read more »