Contributor Ross McDonnell

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Locarno Film Festival

How to capture death on film

by Ross McDonnell

Two prizewinning films at the 2017 Locarno Film Festival – Mrs Fang and 3/4 – attempt to do just that.
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Six of the best films about poets

by Ross McDonnell

From The Colour of Pomegranates to A Quiet Passion, seek out these fascinating portraits of verse-makers.
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In Praise Of

How Millennium Mambo set the blueprint for Moonlight

by Ross McDonnell

Barry Jenkins’ Miami-set coming-of-ager echoes the visual language of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s 2001 film.
Two individuals, a man and a woman, seated in a natural outdoor setting with mountains and foliage in the background. The individuals appear to be in conversation or interaction with one another.
In Praise Of

The emotional, intimate realism of Maren Ade’s Everyone Else

by Ross McDonnell

Before you see Toni Erdmann, seek out the director’s brilliantly observed second feature from 2009.
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Festivals

Colossal – first look review

by Ross McDonnell

A drunk Anne Hathaway wreaks havoc in South Korea in this brilliant, utterly bizarre monster movie.

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Festivals

A controversial new film confronts the horrors of child abduction

by Ross McDonnell

Polish director Bartosz M Kowalski’s Playground graphically depicts the murder of a toddler.

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