Category: Movie

This event was held on the 5th of October| »The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar« scored 8 Genusspunkte | @JFK-Plaza

And so the stage is set for the most visually inventive film that Anderson has made thus far, one whose in-your-face theatricality and manic bricolage of nested subplots are so aggressive that even the recent “Asteroid City” — with its movie about a television program about a play within a play “about infinity and I don’t know what else” construction — feels measured by comparison. So while “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar” may be, in some respects, the most literal Dahl adaptation you could possibly imagine, the true author of this project is never in doubt.

David Ehrlich in IndieWire

This event was held on the 12th of October| »El Conde« scored 5,625 Genusspunkte | @JFK-Plaza

»El Conde« remains a spellbinding and mischievously spry spin on a deadly serious subject from a director who, in his tenth feature, continues to come up with audacious surprises.

David Rooney in The Hollywood Reporter

This event was held on the 17th of September| »Fallende Blätter« scored 7,33 Genusspunkte | @Scala

An 81-minute film that’s as crisp and bittersweet as a late autumn breeze, Kaurismäki’s latest might amount to little more than a bauble in the end, but it offers a stirring reminder — both with its story, and through the experience of watching it — that life can only be so bleak so long as you can still go to the movies and escape it for a little while.

David Ehrlich in IndieWire

This event was held on the 5th of October| »Medusa Deluxe« scored 6,745 Genusspunkte | @JFK-Plaza

Wie „Climax“, „Birdman“ oder „One (Hair)Cut of the Dead“ – nur ohne LSD, Michael Keaton oder Zombies. Aber dafür mit mehr Extensions, Frisurennamen, Haarspray in die Augen oder Beleidigungen vom Kaliber „Pantene Pro-V C*nt“. Stilvolle wie gut gespielte One-Take-Thriller-Whodunit-Illusion.

Daniel Schröckert auf Letterboxd

This event was held on the 2nd of August | »Passages« scored 7,2 Genusspunkte | @Scala

The raw and resonant Passages is the kind of fuck around and find out love triangle that rings true because we aspire to its sexier moments but see ourselves in its most selfish ones.

David Ehrlich in IndieWire

This event was held on the 2nd of August | »Joy Ride« scored 5,545 Genusspunkte | @Filmpalast

Joy Ride is the big, broad, studio comedy to beat this year, an incredible directorial debut with one of the funniest scripts in a while, and a cast that should get all the praise in the world because they just became the dynamic quartet to watch.

Rafael Motamoyar in Slashfilm

This event was held on the 23rd of August | »Past Lives« scored 8,573 Genusspunkte | @Scala

Dieses ironische, aber doch in seiner Doppelbödigkeit ernste Spiel mit Gefühlen, Kulturen und Schicksal macht den Charme, mehr noch: die Kraft von “Past Lives” aus. Die Figuren begreifen, in was für Situationen sie stecken, welche Wendungen ein Hollywooddrehbuch für sie vorsehen würde, wer mit wem durchbrennt, wer der Bösewicht ist. Und irgendwie können sie darüber lächeln, genau wie das Publikum. Aber irgendwie wissen sowohl die vor als auch die auf der Leinwand, dass da auch irgendetwas Wahres, etwas Tiefes, eine Sehnsucht drinsteckt, die aber auch Gefahr birgt. […]

“Past Lives” stiehlt sich deshalb sofort ins Herz des Publikums, weil alles so leise und selbstverständlich ist.

Joris

This event was held on the 15th of July | »Mit Liebe und Entschlossenheit« scored 7,5 Genusspunkte | @Abaton

As is often the case with Denis’ films, [this one] grows more illuminating as it gets hotter; what starts like a constrained and unusually jagged French drama is eventually forged into an incendiary portrait of three people who — to varying degrees — all delude themselves into thinking that the past is possible to quarantine away from the present.

David Ehrlich in IndieWire