My Life as a Zucchini (or Courgette, depending on where you live) is an animated feature film by the Swiss filmmaker Claude Barras. The film follows nine-year-old Icare, an orphan… Read More
Review: My Life as a Zucchini / SFF / Bill
Category: Sydney Film Festival
Review: BIG Time /Bill
Denmark’s Bjarke Ingels has been dubbed by TIME magazine as one the 100 most influential people. Aged 42 he’s the world’s most marketable architect, and in BigTime, he talks about… Read More
Review: Sameblod / SFF / Kena
Sameblod follows the story of Sami (native Scandinavian, also ‘Lappish’) teenager Elle-Marja who wants to go further than what her village Sami school can offer her. She wants to… Read More
Review: Hotel Salvation / Kena
This film was wonderful, to put it plainly. Framed in the lavish State Theatre (which I was late to, as I’d rocked up to the Capitol Theatre 8 minutes before… Read More
Review: Phantom Boy / Kena
J’aime cinema de la France! I apologise to all French people who may be reading this – I have no idea how that is supposed to be spelt or if… Read More
Review: Phantom Boy / SFF / Bill
From Academy-award nominated animators Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli, Phantom Boy tells the story of Leo (voiced by Gaspard Gagnol), a very sick child stuck in hospital who can send… Read More
Response: Seven Samurai / Sydney Film Festival / Nick
The theatre’s lights fade. A lady opens her phone on full brightness, only to be shushed and disciplined by those around her. People wonder whether their parking ticket will expire… Read More
Review: You Have No Idea How Much I Love You / SFF / Tiana
You Have No Idea How Much I Love You is a powerful and emotionally engaging documentary that will leave a mark on anyone who watches it. The documentary follows the… Read More
Review: Angry Inuk / Sydney Film Festival / Kena
I found this film to be one of the most confronting documentaries in my entire film-watching life. Angry Inuk is a documentary starring, made and narrated by Inuit woman Alethea… Read More
Review: Mifune: The Last Samurai / Sydney Film Festival/ Kena
One of my favourite documentaries so far in this festival has been Mifune: The Last Samurai. It analyses contextual factors that impacted on the career of the Japanese legendary actor… Read More