Articles by Giovanni Marchini Camia
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The Whistlers review: Corneliu Porumboiu’s Canary Islands crime caper sings flat
Absconding from his melancholic-minimalist comfort zone, the Romanian talent surfaces in La Gomera with his fallen Police, Adjective anti-hero for a series of somersaulting film noir variations that leave character and narrative engagement in the dust, says Giovanni Marchini Camia.
Sunday, May 26, 2019
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Zombi Child first look: a post-colonial boarding-school voodoo horror
Bertrand Bonello shuffles privilege and oppression in this brooding high-concept horror experiment that shadows the study of a Haitian teenager at an elite modern-day Parisian girls’ school with a zombie wandering his 1960s homeland, writes Giovanni Marchini Camia.
Sunday, May 26, 2019
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What should have won the 2019 Cannes Palme d’Or?
It wasn’t to be the second year a female director won Cannes’s top prize, but our contributors certainly fancied it as much as Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite. Isabel Stevens introduces thoughts from ten of our contributors.
Saturday, May 25, 2019
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The Halt first look: Lav Diaz dreams a cataclysm for his country
The sage of slow cinema holds up a mirror to the present-day Philippines, envisaging a darkly despotic future in this potent if uneven sci-fi epic, finds Giovanni Marchini Camia.
Friday, May 24, 2019
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Lux Æterna first look: Gaspar Noé builds a meta-movie bonfire
In Noé’s blitziest blitzkrieg yet, Beatrice Dallé and Charlotte Gainsbourg play an embattled film director and her star preparing a witch-burning scene. Then Noé unleashes a proper meltdown, writes Giovanni Marchini Camia.
Thursday, May 23, 2019
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Synonyms first look: Nadav Lapid muddies the dreams of an Israeli in Paris
Nadav Lapid’s boldly unsubtle allegory unsettles the audience’s understandings almost as aggressively as he does the political binaries of his young expat protagonist made over in a supposedly cosmopolitan Europe, says Giovanni Marchini Camia.
Friday, February 15, 2019
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Berlinale first look: Earth presents a symphony of Anthropogenic destruction
Austrian nonfiction monumentalist Nikolaus Geyrhalter attends to seven hi-tech Western mining sites busy ravaging our planet, observes Giovanni Marchini Camia.
Sunday, February 10, 2019
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Berlinale first look: The Blue Flower of Novalis is verité portraiture to reckon with
Gustave Vinagre and Rodrigo Carneiro’s raw, ribald chronicle of the ebulliently gay Marcelo has wit and pathos to match its bare-faced cheek, writes Giovanni Marchini Camia.
Saturday, February 9, 2019
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Our Time first look: Carlos Reygadas gores masculinity on its own horns
Carlos Reygadas lays bare masculine pathology with a typically bravura and extraordinarily unsparing dissection of love and marriage, casting himself and his spouse Natalia López at the heart of the piece, writes Giovanni Marchini Camia.
Thursday, September 6, 2018
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Non-Fiction first look: Juliette Binoche and Guillaume Canet talk out publishing’s digital takeover
Set in the analogue milieu of a digitally discombobulated Parisian media couple, Olivier Assayas’s latest pulse-of-the-times drama falls back to old-school 16mm and a lot of old-hat debates over the page versus the pixel, writes Giovanni Marchini Camia.
Monday, September 3, 2018
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