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Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: How to Have Sex

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: How to Have Sex

Vacation in Malia on the Greek island of Crete, a British tourist hub that might as well be hedonism incarnate, doesn’t end well for the three teen girls who travel there on holiday break in Molly Manning Walker’s directorial debut How To Have Sex. The title, however, is

A Normal Family and Normality

A Normal Family and Normality

In a movie titled A Normal Family, one thing can be certain: the family is obligated to abnormality. Hur Jin-ho’s newest film, an adaptation of the Dutch novel The Dinner by Herman Koch, attests to this. The source material’s title explains why the film’s early marketing so

Les Indésirables and Covid-19

Les Indésirables and Covid-19

“The real problem [or] the central mystery of politics is not sovereignty, but government; it is not God, but the angel; it is not the king, but ministry; it is not the law, but the police — that is to say, the governmental machine that they form and support.” Those are

Under the Turquoise Sky — Kentaro [Japan Cuts ’23 Review]

Under the Turquoise Sky — Kentaro [Japan Cuts ’23 Review]

No film festival would be complete without a road movie. For the 2023 edition of Japan Cuts, the U.S. premiere of Under the Turquoise Sky checks that box. The country being traveled is Mongolia, and the stated purpose is for Takeshi (Yuya Yagir) to find a woman at his