TagMaria Mercedes Coroy

Berlin 2015, Drama, Thessaloniki 2015

Ixcanul Volcano – Berlinale 65

A low key coming-of-age drama that stands between the local Mayan traditions and their bleak impoverished lives. Debut feature film by Jayro Bustamante.

REVIEWS

Ja Tozhe Hochu (Me Too) – Venice 69 Orizzonti

Alexei Balabanov's last and most personal film. An adaptation on Tarkovsky's Stalker myth set in Balabanov's provocative world.

Žert (The Joke, 1968)

Possibly the most shattering indictment of totalitarianism to come out of a Communist country - Amos Vogel

Beli, Beli Svet (White, White World, 2010)

A low-voiced drama of characters by Oleg Novković a that follows a theatrical austerity and the dramatic Balkan musicals.

I.D. – Torino 30

The debut film by the Indian director Kamal K.M. where the drama of a lost identity meets a bleak thriller in both worlds of modern Mumbai.

Jauja (2014)

Jodorowsky meets Tarkovsky with a touch of Beckettian minimalism in Lisandro Alonso's hypnotic meta-Western that leads Viggo Mortensen into a never-ending journey to a surreal existential void.

TagMaria Mercedes Coroy

Ixcanul Volcano – Berlinale 65

Ja Tozhe Hochu (Me Too) – Venice 69 Orizzonti

Žert (The Joke, 1968)

Beli, Beli Svet (White, White World, 2010)

I.D. – Torino 30

Jauja (2014)

Dziga Vertov’s Eye

Jodorowsky on filmmaking

La Haine vs. Scarface

David Cronenberg on Manipulation

Antonioni on directing