Swiss cinema has long punched above its weight, with its multilingual culture producing distinctive work in French, German and Italian. The stop-motion My Life as a Zucchini (2016) is a fine example of the quiet emotional precision Swiss filmmakers often bring to their work. Browse Macca's reviews below.
Rating: 3.0★
Jonathan Glazer is not a director who makes things easy for himself, or for his audience. After a decade-long career directing music videos and commercials (most famously for Radiohead and Massive Attack), he moved into features with Sexy Beast (2000) and Birth (2004), two films that marked him as
Rating: 3.5★
Paolo Sorrentino arrived at Youth in 2015 as one of European cinema's most distinctive voices, fresh from the international success of The Great Beauty, which had taken the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2014. Where that earlier picture roamed the ruins and remnants of Rome,
Rating: 3.5★
John le Carré spent the better part of five decades writing about the moral rot that accumulates quietly inside institutions, and The Constant Gardener, his 2001 novel, ranks among his most pointed indictments. Where many of his earlier books trained their scepticism on the intelligence services, this one aimed squarely
Rating: 2.5★
Jorge Mario Bergoglio became the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church in March 2013, and from the moment he stepped onto the balcony of St Peter's Basilica and asked the crowd to pray for him before he blessed them, it was clear that something had shifted in the
Rating: 4.0★
Female genital mutilation is one of the most widely practised and least openly discussed human rights issues in the world. The World Health Organisation estimates that more than 200 million women and girls alive today have undergone some form of the procedure, with prevalence particularly high across parts of sub-
Rating: 4.0★
Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul occupies a singular corner of world cinema, one that tends to divide audiences cleanly into the devoted and the bewildered. His work operates at a frequency all its own: unhurried, sensory, preoccupied with memory, landscape, and the thin membrane between the living and whatever comes after.
Rating: 2.5★
There is a long and restless tradition in world cinema of using the horror genre as a vessel for social and political anxieties, particularly around bodies, identity, and the pressures of conformity. From the body-horror provocations of Cronenberg through to the folk-inflected dread of more recent European and
Rating: 3.5★
The title alone tells you something about the world this film inhabits. "No Dogs or Italians Allowed" refers to the kind of signs that reportedly appeared outside lodgings and workplaces in early twentieth-century France, a blunt shorthand for the discrimination faced by the waves of Italian labourers
Genre Fantasy
★★ — Daredevil (2003)
Genre Animation
★★½ — A Cat in Paris (2010)
Genre Comedy
★★½ — Le Franc (1994)
Genre Drama
★★★ — The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun (1999)
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