Melbourne International Film Festival 2014

God Help the Girl, MIFF 2014

No Comments 12 August 2014

Cuties in knee-highs and neck-ties abound in Stuart Murdoch's God Help the Girl, as reviewed by Eric Butler.

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Melbourne International Film Festival 2014

L for Leisure, MIFF 2014

No Comments 09 August 2014

“The future is undetermined”, says the man sagely. To his dog. Before teaching said dog to boogie-board. This moment in Whitney Horn and Lev Kalman’s L for Leisure is a good way to link together the episodic pieces of the previous 70 minutes, and prescribe some kind of meaning to them. Filmed over the course of four […]

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Melbourne International Film Festival 2014

Afflicted, MIFF 2014

No Comments 07 August 2014

Ashleigh McMillan wades through the horror clichés in Afflicted, discovering a modern twist on the tired 'found footage' drama.

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Clara and The Secret of the Bears, MIFF 2014

No Comments 07 August 2014

Eric Butler on connection to nature in Clara and The Secret of the Bears.

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Web Junkie, MIFF 2014

1 Comment 06 August 2014

Ali Schnabel had a laugh and also some feels in Web Junkie, which documents an internet addiction treatment center for teenagers in China.

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Jack, MIFF 2014

1 Comment 04 August 2014

German simplicity and realism pulls Ali Schnabel's heartstrings but doesn't wrench them out in Edward Berger's Jack.

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Melbourne International Film Festival 2014

The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga, MIFF 2014

No Comments 04 August 2014

The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga opens with a brooding monologue on the wild. Over the centuries, humans have escaped its clutches. We have built houses, roads, cities, fences, and now we have ‘nature reserves’, which perhaps are something of a joke. We flaunt our power over the wild, our complete subjugation of its […]

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Locke, MIFF 2014

1 Comment 04 August 2014

Ali Schnabel lauds Tom Hardy in this restrained must-see of MIFF 2014.

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Melbourne International Film Festival 2014

Children of the Pyre, MIFF 2014

2 Comments 04 August 2014

Children of the Pyre follows the lives of a group of about ten Indian children. Born into the lowest caste in the holy city of Varanasi, they make their way in the world (and a little money for their parents on a good day) gathering shrouds from bodies brought to the Ganges riverside to be […]

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Melbourne International Film Festival 2014

The Distance, MIFF 2014

No Comments 03 August 2014

The Distance or La Distancia is Sergio Caballero’s second feature film after similarly bizarre Finisterrae (2011). It’s a visually arresting heist narrative about three dwarves hired by the forbearing prisoner of a recently deceased oligarch to steal an enigmatic object called ‘The Distance’ from a power station in the Siberian mountains. Pay attention to the Russian voiceover narration […]

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