Contributions from Matt Turner | Little White Lies

Contributor Matt Turner

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Review

The Camera is Ours: Britain’s Women Documentary Makers

by Matt Turner

A fine and nec­es­sary port­man­teau of British doc­u­men­taries all made by less­er-known women filmmakers.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Festivals

The Novelist’s Film – first-look review

by Matt Turner

Hong Sang-soo inter­ro­gates the func­tion of art in his seem­ing­ly self-reflec­tive lat­est feature.
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Festivals

Everything Will Be OK – first-look review

by Matt Turner

Cam­bo­di­an film­mak­er Rithy Panh pon­ders a world where ani­mals have enslaved the human race in his lat­est exper­i­men­tal feature.
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Review

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

by Matt Turner

A school teacher goes viral for all the wrong rea­sons in Roman­ian direc­tor Radu Jude’s sala­cious social satire.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Review

El Father Plays Himself

by Matt Turner

This rich meta-doc­u­men­tary fol­lows a father and son on a deeply per­son­al film­mak­ing jour­ney into the Ama­zon jungle.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Review

The Fever

by Matt Turner

Brazil­ian film­mak­er Maya Da-Rin’s alle­gor­i­cal mys­tery-thriller expert­ly melds tra­di­tion with modernity.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Review

Gunda

by Matt Turner

Vic­tor Kossakovsky’s doc­u­men­tary cap­tures the dai­ly rhythms of its porcine star’s life on the farm.

4
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
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Festivals

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy – first-look review

by Matt Turner

Ryû­suke Ham­aguchi returns with anoth­er female-ori­ent­ed dra­ma about the intri­ca­cies of every­day human dynamics.
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Festivals

Introduction – first-look review

by Matt Turner

A young man trav­els to Berlin in the lat­est lilt­ing rela­tion­ship dra­ma from South Korea’s Hong Sang-soo.
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Festivals

Explore life in the margins at the 18th Document Film Festival

by Matt Turner

This year’s vir­tu­al pro­gramme seeks to reframe our under­stand­ing of a world in con­stant flux.
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Review

Mayor

by Matt Turner

This strik­ing por­trait of the may­or or Ramal­lah digs into the details of gov­er­nance, diplo­ma­cy and dignity.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Festivals

Documentaries to discover at the BFI London Film Festival 2020

by Matt Turner

Eight non-fic­tion fea­tures that are well worth seek­ing out at this year’s LFF.