Inu-ô
Musictale by Masaaki
Yuasa, JPN 2021
Creative animation
and storytelling served in innovative and somewhat discerning manner
4 biwas of 6
 
L'événement
(Happening)
Terminationdrama by
Audrey Diwan, FRA 2022
Direct and
no-nonsense, well-done and gripping in places, yet not too engaging,
partly due
to the story having been told plenty of times before.
3 needles of 6
 
Who
killed the KLF?
Rockumentary by
Chris Atkins, GBR 2021
Standard form
documentary but with exceptionally interesting characters and story.
4 million quid of 6
Zalava
Exorcismish
by Arsalan Amiri, IRN 2021
Sometimes
funny,
sometimes gripping, sometimes unstructured demon flick where human
superstition is the real monster and the lead charactar looks like
Borat.
3 jars of 6
Passion
Domimentuary
by Maja Berg, SWE 2022
Beautifully
shot but immensely boring
2
feathers of 6
Boiling
point
Culidrama
by Philip Barantini, GBR 2021
Tense and
probably accurate depiction of what can happen with too much stress and
a
necessary reliance on others collide.
4
Michelins of 6
Pahanhautoja
(Ruva)
Avienationhorror
by Hanna Bergholm, FIN 2022
Overt
symbolism in creepy but predictable reverse body horror with brilliant
set
design.
3 eggs of
6
Freaks
out
Mutantiare
by Gabriele Mainetti, 2021
Probably
the best Italian actiondramedy set in WW2 since La Vita e Bella, and
with X-men
vibes and beautiful cinematography, brilliant music and spotgon pacing
to boot.
5 cannons
of 6
Svart
Krabba
Icecapaids by Adam
Berg, SWE 2022
Skillful and tense,
but predictable and plot-holey.
3 skates of 6
Aurora
Expectancy by Paz
Fábrega, CRC 2021
Sweet,
laid-back,refreshingly anti-melodramatic and honestly kind of boring.
3 drawings of 6
France
Shallournalism
by Bruno Dumont, FRA 2021
Honest
and superficial at the same time, France tries a lot, and fails more
often than
it succeeds.
2 helmets
of 3
Holy Emy
Hellashealing
by Araceli Lemos, GRE 2021
Beautiful
and uneven, sometimes incomprehensible, yet fascinating.
3 fishes
of 6
Ras
vkhedavt, rodesac cas vukurebt? (What do we see when we look at the
sky?)
Near-miss-narration by Aleksandre Koberidze, GEO
2021
With
almost painfully slow tempo the tale is told (literally, as they use
voice-over narration and rarely any dialogue) so ineffectively that one
wonders what could have happened in the hands of an editor.
2 balls of 6
Zeby nie bylo sladów (Leave no traces)
Despairdrama by Jan P. Matuszynski, POL 2021
Excellently paced, told and acted reality based drama about corruption
and the malice that follows.
5 bugs of 6
Startsladden
Celluloidrelay by numerous, SWE 2021-22
Short
film collections usually consist of both duds and gems, sometimes to
the extreme. This year, it's more streamlined, with no real standout in
either end of the quality spectrum other than the stellar performance
by the young nephew in Den Japanska Illusionen.
Josef, 3/6
En sol i
natten, 2/6
Bromance, 3/6
Den japanska
illusionen, 4/6
Pitch, 4/6
Nattpass, 3/6
Vi var barn
då, 4/6
3.3 mixed media of 6
The Lost
daughter
Disconnection
by Maggie Gyllenhaal, USA 2021
Close,
intense and phenomenally acted in a drama in which you still genuinely
care for
a deeply flawed main character.
5 orange
peels of 6
Land of
dreams
Reverie
by Shoja Azari and Shirin Neshat, USA/GER 2021
Surreal
and with well established mood, along with clever writing and spot-on
acting,
experienced in exactly as hypnotized state as is possible to be.
5
disguises of 6
Grosse
Freiheit
Prisonpetting
by Sebastian Meise, AUT 2021
Well-acted,
down-to-earthy and even-paced, but honestly rather dull.
3 fags of
6
The Beta
test
Psych0mystery
by Jim Cummings and PJ McCabe, USA
2021
An
arseholey protagonist and not too obvious twists make for an
interesting but
not that masterful satirical (bordering on darkly comedic) take on
American
Psycho.
4 purple
envelopes of 6
Hytti nro
6
Romcompartment
by Juho Kuosmanen, FIN/RUS 2021
Familiarity
and honesty, but drags towards the end
3
compartments of 6
Så jävla
easy-going
Add-entity
drama by Christoffer Sandler, SWE 2022
Cute and
not overly sentimental or preachy, with a good heap of bonus for being
shot
literally in my own hoods.
4 crêpes
of 6
A Nuvem
Rosa (The Pink Cloud)
Solosocial
by Iuli Gerbase, BRA 2021
Bottle
episodic drama the hits close to the home, for obvious reasons.
5 VR
glasses of 6
You are
not my mother
Hexhorror
by Kate Dolan, IRE 2021
Ari
Aster-esque creepiness leads to rather run-of-the-mill horror towards
the end.
3
bonfires of 6
Un lugar
llamado dignidad (A place called Dignity)
Cilicecult
by Matías Rojas Valencia, CHL 2021
Creeping,
creepy and uneasy, showing the harsh reality of unchecked religious
authority.
4
sackcloths of 6
Nobody
has to know
Strokesuggestion by Bouli Lanners,
BEL/GBR 2021
Beautiful landscapes frame sombre acting in a
somehow sweet tale of gaslighting.
3
dalmatians of 6
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