Category: Reviews
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SFF 2023: Riceboy Sleeps — a moving portrayal of motherhood and immigration
This review is part of Tharunka’s continued coverage of the 70th Sydney Film Festival. Read the rest of the reviews here. How could they do this to me? How am I going to watch the rest of the SFF films? My first film of the 2023 Sydney Film Festival has set the bar so incredibly high…
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SFF 2023: Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days; the search for truthful images, in life and cinema
Perfect Days is his most vital attempt at capturing images that brim with life, to the point of overflowing.
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“You’re a bad person”: NUTS’ delightful and hard-hitting Reagan Kelly
Content warnings for Reagan Kelly include suicide, mental illness, alcohol and drug abuse, strobe lighting, theatrical haze and theatrical flame. The titular character of Reagan is a former-school captain turned arts-degree dropout, who self-medicates through partying. Each secondary character is developed enough to be worthy of Reagan’s main-character status,including Hugh, her flamboyant yet self-deprecating gay…
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SFF 2023: “People Power, Our Power” — The pop star fighting Uganda’s regime
This review is part of Tharunka’s continued coverage of the 70th Sydney Film Festival. Read the rest of the reviews here. When celebrities engage too closely with politics, it tends to leave the public either utterly bewildered by their involvement or dismissive, considering it a mere ploy to maintain relevance. However, in the documentary Bobi Wine: The People’s…
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SFF 2023: ‘Blue Jean’ and life under Thatcher’s homophobic Britain
This review is part of Tharunka’s continued coverage of the 70th Sydney Film Festival. Read the rest of the reviews here. This year’s Sydney Writer’s Festival features Georgia Oakley’s directorial debut feature film Blue Jean, set during 1988 in the United Kingdom, when Margaret Thatcher’s government was on the precipice of enacting Section 28. Section 28 was UK…
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SFF 2023: Asexual Intimacy on the Big Screen; Slow by Marija Kavtaradze
This review is part of Tharunka’s continued coverage of the 70th Sydney Film Festival. Read the rest of the reviews here. In a time and age where heterosexual sensuality has become comfortable and common on the big screen of the cinema, what kind of intimacy can push these newly set boundaries? Slow (2023), directed by Marija Kavtaradze,…