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.
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Every so often a short film comes along that is so beautiful to look at that the usual criteria start to feel almost beside the point, and Into the Forest, Antonin Niclass's stop-motion short film, is one of those. I watched it at the BFI London Film
Rating: 3.5★
Katia and Maurice Krafft were, by most reasonable measures, operating at the outer limit of what a human being can choose to do and survive. The French volcanologist couple spent roughly two decades driving themselves as close as physically possible to active eruptions, camera in hand, building an extraordinary personal
Rating: 3.0★
You have seen the bones of Man on Fire before, probably several times over. A burnt-out, hard-drinking former operative reluctantly takes a job protecting a young girl; they clash, they bond, she is snatched, and he sets about a merciless campaign to get her back. It is the
Rating: 3.0★
There's a version of watching Under the Skin where the whole thing just washes over you, strange and cold and beautiful, and you walk out feeling vaguely disturbed in a way you can't quite put into words. There's another version where you spend half
Rating: 3.5★
When you put Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel in the same frame, something almost alchemical happens. You don't even need to build much of a story around them. Just point the camera, get out of the way, and let two absolute powerhouses do what they've spent
Rating: 3.5★
The first thing that'll either hook you or drive you absolutely mad is the camera work. Fernando Meirelles shoots this with a deliberately restless, almost chaotic energy, and I know plenty of critics have knocked the skewed angles and hyper-stylised framing, dismissing them as distracting or overly
Rating: 2.5★
The cover art for Wim Wenders' 2018 documentary is genuinely quite cool. Striking, minimalist, it promises something profound and intimate about the life of the modern pontiff. But the moment you actually press play, that sleek packaging gives way to what is, without exaggeration, one of the most by-
5th Cinecitta Italian Doc Season
The Italian documentary maker Gianluca Matarrese has built a name on pointing his camera at people who soon forget it is there. With I Want Her Dead he plants himself inside one feuding family in a remote Calabrian village, where a woman named Luisa is at war with her mother,
Rating: 4.0★
Some documentaries inform you. The best ones change you. Jaha's Promise belongs firmly in that second category. I came away from it heartbroken, furious, and genuinely inspired, sometimes all three at once, and that emotional complexity is exactly what separates a truly vital piece of documentary filmmaking from
Rating: 4.0★
There's a moment early in Memoria where Tilda Swinton's character jolts awake at a sound nobody else seems to hear, a deep, resonant thud that comes from nowhere and goes nowhere, and I genuinely wasn't sure what kind of film I was watching. Horror?
Raindance Film Festival
Some films arrive quietly and stay with you. Silent Rebellion, the French-language drama from director Marie-Elsa Sgualdo, is one of them. Known in French as À bras-le-corps, it is a Belgian, French and Swiss co-production and Sgualdo's feature debut, and it has been
Rating: 2.5★
There's a moment early in Tiger Stripes where you can feel the film it wants to be, and it's a genuinely exciting one. A young Malaysian girl, Zaffan, becomes the first among her friends to menstruate, and the world around her shifts in that quiet, cruel
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