Film of the day: JEUNE CINÉMA (dir Yves-Marie Mahé, 2022) The history of the now defunct Hyères film festival of “young cinema” entirely told through a treasure trove of archival material; a cautionary tale about the relationship between institutions and artists.
#IFFR2023 #documentary #film #filmfestival #Hyères #filmhistory #cinema #filmposterart

Film of the day: LE TAXI, LE CINÉMA ET MOI (dir Salam Zampaligre, 2022) Scattershot documentary about the stymied career of Burkina Faso director Drissa Touré, fascinating as a snapshot of the problems African cinema faces but too unfocused to be entirely successful as a standalone film.
#IFFR2023 #documentary #AfricanCinema #film #filmfestival #filmposterart

Film of the day:海鷗來過的房間 (KISSING THE GROUND YOU WALKED ON, dir Hong Hang Fei, 2022) Serene tale of coming to terms with one’s limitations and desires, loosely inspired by THE SEAGULL and quite elegantly directed and performed.
#IFFR2023 #Macao #Tchekhov #TheSeagull #literature #theatre #QueerCinema #LGBTQ #film #filmposterart #filmfestival #AsianCinema

Film of the day: آن سوی حصارهای لاله زار (BEYOND THE FENCES OF LÂLEHZÂR, dir Amen Feizabadi, 2023) Intriguing but ultimately obscure combination of essay film and multimedia performance piece that would probably have been more successful as a stage production; on film, it outstays its welcome very quickly. #IFFR2023 #IranianCinema #Teheran #art #dance #music #memory #performance #multimedia #film #filmposterart #filmfestivals

Film of the day: عصب کشی (NUMB, dir Amir Toodehroosta, 2023) Essentially PLAYGROUND set in an Iranian kindergarten, with a sensitive young boy watching the adults and other kids behaving badly; well enough made but unable to transcend its limitations.
#IFFR2023 #IranianCinema #children #drama #kindergarten #adults #Iran #childhood #film #filmposterart #filmfestival

Film of the day: NOTAS SOBRE UN VERANO (NOTES ON A SUMMER, dir Diego Llorente, 2023) Dull, listless drama about the dilemmas of love for a young woman facing the future for the first time; we’ve all seen this before, and usually better done. #IFFR2023 #drama #SpanishCinema #summer #love #boyfriends #film #filmfestival #filmposterart

School girls make a new friend, a white girl who turns out to be a vampire in I Can't Stop Biting You (Oshii Mamoru, 2022). Idiotically funny nonsense with an irresistable charm. #FrontaalNaaktFilm #iffr2023 #JapaneseCinema

Film of the day: PACIFICTION (dir Albert Serra, 2022) A psychedelic fever dream in blinding primary neons, literally trans-gender in the way it blithely disregards labels and expectations to explore in languid, extended takes apocalyptic ideas of power and privilege.
#IFFR2023 #film #filmfestival #filmposterart #drama #auteur #WTF #spyfilm #thriller #genre #psychedelia

Film of the day: WIR SIND DANN WOHL DIE ANGEHÖRIGEN (WE ARE THE NEXT OF KIN, dir Hans-Christian Schmid, 2022) Distended, atmospheric family drama doubling as a slow-motion thriller based on a real-life kidnapping from 1990s Germany; a quiet, unassuming storm of a movie.
#IFFR2023 #drama #family #thriller #procedural #Germany #1990s