Tag: spectatorship

Finale

Finale (aka The Ringmaster) (2018)

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Finale (aka The Ringmaster) first published by SciFiNow Taking place (mostly) in an isolated petrol station on the night that the Danish football team is playing in the finals of the European Championship, Finale (aka The Ringmaster) sets itself up as a familiar – indeed timeless – tale of predatory victimisation. The station owner’s daughter…

Shirin

Shirin (2009)

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First published by Little White Lies Sometimes a film’s central conceit can be far more interesting than the film itself. In Abbas Kiarostami’s Shirin, the big idea is to show not a piece of conventional narrative cinema, but rather the faces of an ensemble of Iranian actresses (and Juliette Binoche) as they watch such a…