Porno (2019) at Fantasia and FrightFest 2019 Keola Racela’s feature debut opens with a sequence not entirely unexpected in a film called Porno: a couple fucking in a bedroom. Then the camera draws back, and we realise that much as we are watching this unfold within the frame of the cinema screen, others are watching…
Tangerines (Mandariinid) published by Sight & Sound, October 2015 Review: While Tangerines (Mandariinid) opens with a brief on-screen text describing the 1992 civil war between ethnic Georgians and Russian-supported Abkhaz separatists that sent most local Estonian settlers fleeing back home, the first images we see in the film are of ‘grandpa’ Ivo (Estonian acting legend…