Articles by Jessica Kiang
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Berlinale 2020 report: a slow turn, with bumps
The winner dialled in from house arrest and some of the bigger names were missing in action, but the 70th Berlinale pulled together enough finds and fresh ideas to seem open to the future, found Jessica Kiang.
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
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Ad Astra review: Brad Pitt bestrides the stars, darkly
Pitt’s ice-cool astronaut crosses the cosmos in search of his lost father in James Gray’s spectrally majestic, obsessive space opera, finds Jessica Kiang.
Saturday, August 31, 2019
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Freely interweaving his own inventions with myths and legends from Hollywood’s late golden years, Quentin Tarantino delivers one of the most exuberantly sharp-witted meta-movies we’ve seen – until, until… Jessica Kiang minds her spoilers.
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
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I Was at Home, But… first look: an elegantly radical mystery
Classically composed and gorgeously immersive, the new film from Angela Schanelec is a bizarre, mystifying work that is oddly comforting despite its many puzzles, writes Jessica Kiang.
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
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Berlinale first look: The Golden Glove wallows in obscenity
Fatih Akin’s relentless rendition of the sexual sadism of 1970s Hamburg serial killer Fritz Honka plumbs the lowest depths of human turpitude, says Jessica Kiang.
Sunday, February 10, 2019
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Berlinale first look: The Kindness of Strangers is a misty-eyed Manhattan McFlurry
Lone Scherfig’s hokey fairy tale delivers Zoe Kazan’s runaway family into an entirely spurious New York, says Jessica Kiang.
Friday, February 8, 2019
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The Sisters Brothers first look: Jacques Audiard takes a delightful detour from the western trail
Jacques Audiard’s take on the deathless genre is a mournfully comic yarn that builds at its own loose pace to a surprisingly profound conclusion, writes Jessica Kiang.
Tuesday, September 4, 2018
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Sunset first look: a belle epoque a hatstand of a movie
László Nemes’s overblown melodrama tracks Juli Jakab’s would-be hatter through a lavishly recreated late-imperial Budapest, a florid procession of headwear and a madly unfocussed plot, writes Jessica Kiang.
Tuesday, September 4, 2018
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Strongmen take all at Karlovy Vary 2018
Three studies of mighty male monsters won the three top prizes at this year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Sign of the times, asks Jessica Kiang.
Sunday, July 22, 2018
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Burning first look: Lee Chang-dong’s film sets a noirish love triangle alight
Lee Chang-dong’s masterful and unclassifiable follow-up to Poetry teems with ambiguity, inevitability and sublime mystery, says Jessica Kiang.
Friday, May 18, 2018
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