Film Reviews

8177 film reviews available in total starting from 04/09/2002. Last updated on 20/11/2025. 719 film reviews inserted in the last 12 months.

Pause by Mathieu Urfer

18/08/2014

In Italian: The first feature film by young director Mathieu Urfer has given the Locarno Piazza Grande an underground comedy which is characteristically Swiss  

Pause

Pause

Horse Money by Pedro Costa

18/08/2014

Pedro Costa’s latest film, in the International competition at the Locarno Film Festival, tells us about ghosts that are trying to rebuild an identity from the edge of a hospital bed  

Cavalo dinheiro

Cavalo dinheiro

White Nights on The Pier by Paul Vecchiali

16/08/2014

A night owl, a woman seduced and abandoned, a mobile phone and a light house – these are the ingredients that make up Paul Vecchiali’s new film competing at Locarno  

Nuits blanches sur la jetée

Nuits blanches sur la jetée

Electroboy by Marcel Gisler

15/08/2014

In italian: The film by Swiss director Marcel Gisler, shown at Locarno's Semaine de la critique, is an insight to the goings-on within the mind of someone with thousands of different faces  

Electroboy

Electroboy

To life by Jean-Jacques Zilbermann

15/08/2014

Jean-Jacques Zilbermann tells us about his mother: a woman, deported, a communist, wife and lover  

A la vie

A la vie

They Chased Me Through Arizona by Matthias Huser

14/08/2014

The first feature film from Matthias Huser, screened at Locarno in the Cineasti del presente competition, amazes thanks to its captivating and mysterious aesthetic universe  

They Chased Me Through Arizona

They Chased Me Through Arizona

El tiempo nublado by Arami Ullón

14/08/2014

The film by Arami Ullón was presented in the Panorama Suisse at the Locarno Film Festival and serves as proof of Visions du Réel’s knack for discovering new talents  

El tiempo nublado

El tiempo nublado

Love Island by Jasmila Žbanić

13/08/2014

The latest feature film from Bosnian director Jasmila Zbanic excited the audience at the Locarno Film Festival with a mix of humour and kitsch, Bollywood-style  

Love Island

Love Island

Antigone awake by Guadalupe Pérez García

13/08/2014

Lupe Pérez Garcia's second feature, an experimental and rather abstract retelling of Sophocles' tragedy, is being presented at Locarno  

Antígona despierta

Antígona despierta

A Blast by Syllas Tzoumerkas

13/08/2014

The second film by Greek director Syllas Tzoumerkas is a story of a woman who is no longer able to stand frustration brought on by personal and social problems  

A Blast

A Blast

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