Cedric Succivalli
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Film programmer and critic.
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Marc van de Klashorst enjoys the rollercoaster ride that is Paul Thomas Anderson's ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, a film that makes light of a serious issue, while lacking the satirical bite to make the audience look past the laughter buff.ly/ErxmKij
Review: One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)
"One Battle After Another makes light of a serious issue, while lacking the satirical bite to make the audience look past the laughter. The question is if
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September 28, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Marc van de Klashorst enjoys the rollercoaster ride that is Paul Thomas Anderson's ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, a film that makes light of a serious issue, while lacking the satirical bite to make the audience look past the laughter buff.ly/ErxmKij
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John Lynn kicks a ball in Alexandre Koberidze's singular DRY LEAF, a meditative, beautiful, and deeply moving film about the unpredictability of life, the changes of culture, and the persistence of play #NYFF63 buff.ly/QZGhH0y
September 30, 2025 at 12:30 AM
John Lynn kicks a ball in Alexandre Koberidze's singular DRY LEAF, a meditative, beautiful, and deeply moving film about the unpredictability of life, the changes of culture, and the persistence of play #NYFF63 buff.ly/QZGhH0y
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Matthew Joseph Jenner is profoundly moved by Joachim Trier's SENTIMENTAL VALUE, a film that never abates in its willingness to challenge conventions through its subtle, poetic approach to the human condition #NYFF63 buff.ly/tYRNwbO
October 1, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Matthew Joseph Jenner is profoundly moved by Joachim Trier's SENTIMENTAL VALUE, a film that never abates in its willingness to challenge conventions through its subtle, poetic approach to the human condition #NYFF63 buff.ly/tYRNwbO
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Matilda Hague sees masks slip in Hong Sang-soo's WHAT DOES THAT NATURE SAY TO YOU?, a film whose visual approach deliberately blurs cultural detail into something recognizably human: the comedy, and the terror, of being seen #NYFF63 buff.ly/QWWrlzL
October 2, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Matilda Hague sees masks slip in Hong Sang-soo's WHAT DOES THAT NATURE SAY TO YOU?, a film whose visual approach deliberately blurs cultural detail into something recognizably human: the comedy, and the terror, of being seen #NYFF63 buff.ly/QWWrlzL
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Milani Perera drives the backroads of Iran in Hassan Nazer's WITHOUT PERMISSION, a film that proves that when you're not allowed to speak, sometimes the only way forward is to film in secret and hope the world is listening #BIFF2025 buff.ly/t4qGRTJ
Busan 2025 review: Without Permission (Hassan Nazer)
"A film that doesn't yell, but hums with defiance" At the centre of Without Permission, Hassan Nazer's quietly radical piece of docu-fiction that
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October 4, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Milani Perera drives the backroads of Iran in Hassan Nazer's WITHOUT PERMISSION, a film that proves that when you're not allowed to speak, sometimes the only way forward is to film in secret and hope the world is listening #BIFF2025 buff.ly/t4qGRTJ
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John Lynn explores the realities of queer life in Lucio Castro's DRUNKEN NOODLES, a film about the moments that don’t have closure, the friends and lovers who drift in and out of our lives, and about how memory holds them all #NYFF63 buff.ly/Sw407nF
New York 2025 review: Drunken Noodles (Lucio Castro)
"Castro explores the realities of queer life with delicacy and honesty" In a festival with so much curation as the New York Film Festival, where each day
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October 5, 2025 at 5:50 AM
John Lynn explores the realities of queer life in Lucio Castro's DRUNKEN NOODLES, a film about the moments that don’t have closure, the friends and lovers who drift in and out of our lives, and about how memory holds them all #NYFF63 buff.ly/Sw407nF
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John Lynn develops a fear of water in Milagros Mumenthaler's THE CURRENTS, a film with Hitchcockian tension and hypnotic, dream-like rhythm #NYFF63 buff.ly/pUfLdQy
New York 2025 review: The Currents (Milagros Mumenthaler)
"Will surely grip with its Hitchcockian tension and its hypnotic, dream-like rhythm" Playing in this year’s New York Film Festival’s Main Slate is
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October 6, 2025 at 5:19 AM
John Lynn develops a fear of water in Milagros Mumenthaler's THE CURRENTS, a film with Hitchcockian tension and hypnotic, dream-like rhythm #NYFF63 buff.ly/pUfLdQy
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John Lynn finds something rare in Masao Adachi's ESCAPE, a film about the erosion of conviction under the weight of time, and one that insists revolution is not a historical event but a lifelong condition #NYFF63 buff.ly/1QOIfxb
New York 2025 review: Escape (Masao Adachi)
"A work of genuine conviction made by an artist who has lived his politics" "A sunflower, even when cut down, still stands upright." Escape, the latest
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October 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
John Lynn finds something rare in Masao Adachi's ESCAPE, a film about the erosion of conviction under the weight of time, and one that insists revolution is not a historical event but a lifelong condition #NYFF63 buff.ly/1QOIfxb
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John Lynn circumnavigates the world in Lav Diaz's MAGELLAN, a gorgeous, hypnotic, and contemplative epic about conquest, conversion, mythmaking, and family #NYFF63 buff.ly/L7XEATL
October 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
John Lynn circumnavigates the world in Lav Diaz's MAGELLAN, a gorgeous, hypnotic, and contemplative epic about conquest, conversion, mythmaking, and family #NYFF63 buff.ly/L7XEATL
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Matilda Hague explores a recurring subject in cinema, fatherhood, in Ronan Day-Lewis' ANEMONE, a film whose biggest draw is its insistence that fatherhood, however fraught, is the point where history finally demands acknowledgment #NYFF63 buff.ly/j54j01k
New York 2025 review: Anemone (Ronan Day-Lewis)
"Explores trauma, guilt, and reconciliation through an emotionally charged lens" Over the past year, I’ve been struck by how often fatherhood appears on
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October 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Matilda Hague explores a recurring subject in cinema, fatherhood, in Ronan Day-Lewis' ANEMONE, a film whose biggest draw is its insistence that fatherhood, however fraught, is the point where history finally demands acknowledgment #NYFF63 buff.ly/j54j01k
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Matthew Joseph Jenner experiences child labor in Sarah Goher's HAPPY BIRTHDAY, a film of profound authenticity whose impact left is the result of a director working to create something memorable buff.ly/7Z9aCYN
Review: Happy Birthday (Sarah Goher)
"As hauntingly beautiful as it is deeply disquieting" If there is one way to describe Happy Birthday, the beautiful directorial debut of Sarah Goher, it
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November 1, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Matthew Joseph Jenner experiences child labor in Sarah Goher's HAPPY BIRTHDAY, a film of profound authenticity whose impact left is the result of a director working to create something memorable buff.ly/7Z9aCYN
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Matthew Joseph Jenner finds something deeply personal and profoundly moving in Karin Pennanen's DAYS OF WONDER, an intimate voyage into the life of a man whose entire raison d'être was to create by any means necessary #PÖFF29 buff.ly/oiLIZ2d
Tallinn 2025 review: Days of Wonder (Karin Pennanen)
"A deeply personal and profoundly moving artistic odyssey" While it may not be their entire purpose, every artist yearns to be recognised, even if solely
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November 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Matthew Joseph Jenner finds something deeply personal and profoundly moving in Karin Pennanen's DAYS OF WONDER, an intimate voyage into the life of a man whose entire raison d'être was to create by any means necessary #PÖFF29 buff.ly/oiLIZ2d
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Abby Laing throws her anchor into Fabrice Aragno's LE LAC, a unique sensorial and visual experience that will not be to everyone’s taste, but is sure to entrance those who find themselves on its particular wavelength #Locarno78 buff.ly/huz45kM
August 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Abby Laing throws her anchor into Fabrice Aragno's LE LAC, a unique sensorial and visual experience that will not be to everyone’s taste, but is sure to entrance those who find themselves on its particular wavelength #Locarno78 buff.ly/huz45kM
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Marc van de Klashorst explores Vietnam's caves in Truong Minh Quý and Nicolas Graux's HAIR, PAPER, WATER..., a film that will be all that lasts as a memory of a culture #Locarno78 buff.ly/ZNh1hTZ
August 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Marc van de Klashorst explores Vietnam's caves in Truong Minh Quý and Nicolas Graux's HAIR, PAPER, WATER..., a film that will be all that lasts as a memory of a culture #Locarno78 buff.ly/ZNh1hTZ
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Erwan Desbois sees a director playing with fiction and our perception of it in Sho Miyake's TWO SEASONS, TWO STRANGERS, a delicate short story working on many levels #Locarno78 buff.ly/tTC8Wdk
August 15, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Erwan Desbois sees a director playing with fiction and our perception of it in Sho Miyake's TWO SEASONS, TWO STRANGERS, a delicate short story working on many levels #Locarno78 buff.ly/tTC8Wdk
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Matthew Joseph Jenner doesn't follow society's conventions around aging in Želimir Žilnik's EIGHTY PLUS, a film you simply can’t resist the lovable nature of #SFF31 buff.ly/nTUfJlL
August 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Matthew Joseph Jenner doesn't follow society's conventions around aging in Želimir Žilnik's EIGHTY PLUS, a film you simply can’t resist the lovable nature of #SFF31 buff.ly/nTUfJlL
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Sho Miyake's TWO SEASONS, TWO STRANGERS just won the Golden Leopard, the main prize at #Locarno78. Here is (again) our review by Erwan Desbois: icsfilm.org/festivals/lo...
Locarno 2025 review: Two Seasons, Two Strangers (Sho Miyake)
"A delicate short story working on many levels." In the very first scene of Two Seasons, Two Strangers a woman notes down ideas for the opening scene of a
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August 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Sho Miyake's TWO SEASONS, TWO STRANGERS just won the Golden Leopard, the main prize at #Locarno78. Here is (again) our review by Erwan Desbois: icsfilm.org/festivals/lo...
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Matthew Joseph Jenner mourns a loss in Srđan Vuletić's poignant and melancholic OTTER, a stark exploration of the burden that grief can have on a young person during their formative years #SFF31 buff.ly/V197MFB
August 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Matthew Joseph Jenner mourns a loss in Srđan Vuletić's poignant and melancholic OTTER, a stark exploration of the burden that grief can have on a young person during their formative years #SFF31 buff.ly/V197MFB
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Matthew Joseph Jenner sees first-time director Kukla try a little too hard in FANTASY, a film that doesn't flesh out its core ideas thorougly enough, and is almost solely saved by a single performance #SFF31
Sarajevo 2025 review: Fantasy (Kukla)
"While its ambition is admirable, the film struggles when it comes to putting its ideas into practice" At some point we all come to realise who we are
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August 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Matthew Joseph Jenner sees first-time director Kukla try a little too hard in FANTASY, a film that doesn't flesh out its core ideas thorougly enough, and is almost solely saved by a single performance #SFF31
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Matthew Joseph Jenner sees director Nikola Ležaić's take a very personal journey in HOW COME IT'S ALL GREEN OUT HERE?, a film that makes a subtle but meaningful statement on the complicated process of returning home #SFF31 buff.ly/uZKQJKI
August 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Matthew Joseph Jenner sees director Nikola Ležaić's take a very personal journey in HOW COME IT'S ALL GREEN OUT HERE?, a film that makes a subtle but meaningful statement on the complicated process of returning home #SFF31 buff.ly/uZKQJKI
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Matthew Joseph Jenner ponders one of life's few inevitabilities in Else Kremser and Levin Peter's WHITE SNAIL, a film that is not afraid to investigate the more complex recesses of the human soul #SFF31 buff.ly/hEsvCIl
August 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Matthew Joseph Jenner ponders one of life's few inevitabilities in Else Kremser and Levin Peter's WHITE SNAIL, a film that is not afraid to investigate the more complex recesses of the human soul #SFF31 buff.ly/hEsvCIl
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Matthew Joseph Jenner enjoys Renátó Olasz's STARS OF LITTLE IMPORTANCE, a masterful example of how a simple concept can become truly extraordinary when explored by a director who possesses a clear vision #SFF31
Sarajevo 2025 review: Stars of Little Importance (Renátó Olasz)
"A masterful example of how a simple concept can become truly extraordinary when explored by a director who possesses a clear vision" Something one
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August 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Matthew Joseph Jenner enjoys Renátó Olasz's STARS OF LITTLE IMPORTANCE, a masterful example of how a simple concept can become truly extraordinary when explored by a director who possesses a clear vision #SFF31
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Matthew Joseph Jenner digs into the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Tarik Hodžić's BOSNIAN KNIGHT, a simple documentary with bold ideas and a deep sense of curiosity #SFF31 buff.ly/G7eo2aZ
Sarajevo 2025 review: Bosnian Knight (Tarik Hodžić)
"A simple documentary with bold ideas and a deep sense of curiosity" One of the most revealing moments in someone’s life is when they begin to understand
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August 19, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Matthew Joseph Jenner digs into the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Tarik Hodžić's BOSNIAN KNIGHT, a simple documentary with bold ideas and a deep sense of curiosity #SFF31 buff.ly/G7eo2aZ
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Matthew Joseph Jenner explores the role an individual can play in forging a national identity and a shared history in Katalin Bársony's I SAW A SUNO, a quiet and meditative look at the journey of a young man whose life was forcibly defined by others #SFF31 buff.ly/xdpzNig
August 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Matthew Joseph Jenner explores the role an individual can play in forging a national identity and a shared history in Katalin Bársony's I SAW A SUNO, a quiet and meditative look at the journey of a young man whose life was forcibly defined by others #SFF31 buff.ly/xdpzNig
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Matthew Joseph Jenner explores the fascinating Balkan tradition of 'sworn virgins' in Andamion Murataj's MAN OF THE HOUSE, a subtle, nuanced film on the surface, but one with a deeply complex perspective #SFF31 buff.ly/db0HXDc
August 20, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Matthew Joseph Jenner explores the fascinating Balkan tradition of 'sworn virgins' in Andamion Murataj's MAN OF THE HOUSE, a subtle, nuanced film on the surface, but one with a deeply complex perspective #SFF31 buff.ly/db0HXDc