As might be expected from an actress-turned-director, the performances are important to Tezel but she also shows an aptitude for visual storytelling.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

As might be expected from an actress-turned-director, the performances are important to Tezel but she also shows an aptitude for visual storytelling.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

If one bears in mind that parts of it may be more fiction than fact, it’s an interesting character study, as well as one of the more unusual cinematic portraits of a marriage under stress.

~ Jennie Kermode -

If one bears in mind that parts of it may be more fiction than fact, it’s an interesting character study, as well as one of the more unusual cinematic portraits of a marriage under stress.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The powerful forces of family and fable, old and new, intertwine and vie for supremacy in Belgian-Congolese director Baloji’s visually striking debut.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The powerful forces of family and fable, old and new, intertwine and vie for supremacy in Belgian-Congolese director Baloji’s visually striking debut.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A meditation on both memory and movies as well as ageing and a hankering for the past that is informed by the melancholic knowledge that nostalgia is inevitably rose-tinted.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

A meditation on both memory and movies as well as ageing and a hankering for the past that is informed by the melancholic knowledge that nostalgia is inevitably rose-tinted.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Sometimes the rumblings are of the Shaw Brothers, at others the Marx Brothers.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Sometimes the rumblings are of the Shaw Brothers, at others the Marx Brothers.

~ Andrew Robertson -

It’s a film full of small acts of kindness, a film in which it’s possible to make mistakes and keep on going, and in which the audience is therefore at liberty to be entertained by a series of scrapes which might otherwise be mortifying.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It’s a film full of small acts of kindness, a film in which it’s possible to make mistakes and keep on going, and in which the audience is therefore at liberty to be entertained by a series of scrapes which might otherwise be mortifying.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Although its central perspective is rather simplistic, there’s so much packed in around the edges that quite different narratives emerge there, making for a complex and satisfying whole.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Although its central perspective is rather simplistic, there’s so much packed in around the edges that quite different narratives emerge there, making for a complex and satisfying whole.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Hesitation Wound is a melancholy piece of cinema but such an accomplished one that it is a delight to watch.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Hesitation Wound is a melancholy piece of cinema but such an accomplished one that it is a delight to watch.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Its slow, observational style allows us to get much closer to the key figures and explore aspects of motive which are commonly lost.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Its slow, observational style allows us to get much closer to the key figures and explore aspects of motive which are commonly lost.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Multiverses have become a box office staple lately, courtesy of Marvel and the like, but they are rarely as elegantly mounted as this retro and twisty little mystery from Timm Kröger.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Multiverses have become a box office staple lately, courtesy of Marvel and the like, but they are rarely as elegantly mounted as this retro and twisty little mystery from Timm Kröger.

~ Amber Wilkinson -