Forgiveness has its world première at FrightFest In the ‘prologue’ (formally labelled as such) to Forgiveness, written and directed by Alex Kahuam (So You Want To Be A Gangster?, 2018), three visibly upset women – Camila (Alejandra Toussaint), Magnea (Jessica Ortiz) and Aisha (Alejandra Zaid) – shoot a hog-tied and gagged man (Andres De La…
Happyness Is A Warm Gun (Glück ist ein warmes Gewehr) first published by EyeforFilm Founded in 2015, the Swiss ‘top ten collectiv’ specialises in theatre and performance art – and while Happyness Is A Warm Gun (Glück ist ein warmes Gewehr) is their first feature film, its limited set and finite ensemble of players (Patricija…
Five Dedicated to Ozu first published (in 2003) by Movie Gazette – and my first dip into the oeuvre of the late Abbas Kiarostami… When MTV arrived in the 1980s, it heralded a whole new way of presenting images. The station’s in-house style – a hyperactive succession of chopped up visual stimuli designed to bludgeon into submission even…