Richard Cotter

Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.

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palestinian film festival: dendy newtown

This year’s Palestinian Film Festival Australia program features a film that is irony rusted by recent tears

Winner of the International Federation of Film Critics Prize at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, A Gaza Weekend by Basil Khalil is

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french film festival: 41 films

 

Channelling Moliere, THE PRESIDENT’S WIFE is a sidewinder biopic of Bernadette Chirac, the astute and aspiring spouse of Jacques Chirac, France’s president from 1995 to 2007.

Writer director Léa Domenach depicts Bernadette as the brains behind the throne, more

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subtraction: a welcome addition

It rains in Iran. It teems, it seems, in Tehran.

Precipitation seems to be perennial in Mani Haghighi’s subversive, twisty SUBTRACTION.

It’s pouring at the start of the picture when Farzaneh (Taraneh Alidoosti) spots a man on a city bus

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four daughters: a mother load

Flanked by two of her four daughters, Olfa Hamrouni addresses the camera and reports that the two daughters missing from this portrait have been devoured by the wolf.

This startling statement starts the astonishing documentary feature, FOUR DAUGHTERS, from two

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the zone of interest: a masterpiece

 

 

Sandra Huller, Oscar nominated this year for her dazzling performance in Anatomy of a Fall, delivers another awesome portrayal in THE ZONE OF INTEREST.

THE ZONE OF INTEREST is nominated for five Oscars in total, Best Film, Best

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everything is shit: no truth in advertising

Photo credits: HollyMae Steane Price

Everything is shit though this show isn’t, even though the writer performer has been through the shit show of a fucked up family.

A hit at last year’s Sydney Fringe Festival, Andy Freeborn’s raw from

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body of lies: obese procedural

After a sensational prologue, a fast and furious set piece that would make a fantastic pre-title sequence should this be turned into a film, BODY OF LIES, the latest Gemma Woodstock novel, gets weighed down in domestic detail like a

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oscar shorts: eat them up

BONSAI FILMS in association with ShortsTV will be releasing the 19th annual Oscar® Nominated Short Films from 22 Feb at 37 cinema locations nationally with sessions that will be staggered through to early March.

 The release – only to

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the eternal memory: unforgetable

THE ETERNAL MEMORY is a devastating documentary about a devastating disease.

It’s also a documentary about an abiding love, a true “in sickness and health” scenario.

Augusto and Paulina have been together and in love for 25 years. Eight years

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