Take 300: a mixture of one car commercial/remake director, one sexy ‘graphic novel’ (from the creator of Sin City), spiced up with a few speeches about freedom, and served lukewarm with IMAX-tailored cinematography. The result: a product that even the creators refer to as the ‘300 experience’ rather than calling it a film. Director Zack […]
Suden Vuosi follows the complicated love-story between Mikko, a middle-aged professor of literature (Kari Heiskanen) and his star pupil, the quiet, epileptic Sari (Krista Kosonen). Sari’s condition has caused her to retreat from normal life, while Mikko’s fascination with 19th century poetry is slowly alienating him from his family and colleagues; that is, until the […]
Of this year’s two featured countries, the Danish series focuses on the rise of Danish cinema with the likes of this year’s esteemed IDFA winners and films from the two generations of Leths, Jørgen, the celebrated film-making father and Asger, his son – both of who are also attending the festival this year – while […]
{quotes}Part Jackass, part Andy Kaufman, Sacha Baron Cohen is clearly a man who thrives on controversy, but to label him as a low-brow shock comedian is to miss the point.{/quotes} Yes, Borat is outrageous, tasteless and at times unbearably embarrassing to watch, but at the same time, intelligent and above all, pant-pissing, ‘tears-streaming-down your-cheeks’-class funny […]