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Dog And Wolf - The independent film review magazine for the latest in world cinema and the best of the film festivals

Alexa Dalby

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★★★★, Cannes Film Festival 2022, Chile, London Film Festival 2022, out now, Reviews, Women FilmmakersMarch 17, 2023

1976 (2022)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Chilean political thriller 1976 is an unbearably tense and involving debut from actor turned director Manuela Martelli, starring award-winning Aline Kuppenheim.

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★★★★, documentary, festivals, Ireland, out now, Women FilmmakersMarch 3, 2023

Thessaloniki Documentary Festival: The Laughing Boy (An Buachaill Geal Gháireach) (2022)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
An Buachaill Geal Gáireach (The Laughing Boy) is the extraordinary untold story of a song that resonated for freedom in Ireland and Greece.

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★★★★, Bhutan, China, London Film Festival 2022, oscars, out now, ReviewsMarch 1, 2023

Lanuna: A Yak in the Classroom (2019)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Set in a remote village in the beautiful mountains of Bhutan, Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom is a charming, photogenic feature debut by writer/director Pawo Choyning Dorji.

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★★★, Black filmmakers, Female Filmmakers, festivals, out now, Reviews, USA, Women FilmmakersFebruary 27, 2023

I’m Fine (Thanks for Asking) (2021)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
US festival favourite I’m Fine (Thanks for Asking) is a touching, positive indie movie, female written and directed, made during Los Angeles’ lockdown (see the mask use) focusing on the struggles to be independent of a widowed mother who happens to be homeless, black and female – and beautiful.

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★★★★, Belgium, Cannes Film Festival 2022, France, London Film Festival 2022, Netflix, Netherlands, oscars, out now, ReviewsFebruary 27, 2023

Close (2022)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Close by Lukas Dhont (Girl) is a heartbreaking film of two boys’ friendship.

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Cannes Film Festival 2022, Japan, Korea, out now, Picturehouse, ReviewsFebruary 20, 2023

Broker (2022)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Broker by Hirokazu Koreeda, starring acclaimed actor Song Kang-ho and K-Pop star Lee Ji-eun, is a heartwarming tragi-comic Korean drama about families that form themselves by choice not birth.

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★★★★★, out now, ReviewsFebruary 19, 2023

Bafta Awards 2023

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Bafta Award Winners 2023

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★★★, Argentina, Berlin Film Festival 2023, France, out now, Reviews, San SebastiánFebruary 19, 2023

Berlinale 2023 Review: El Castillo (2023) (The Castle)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
Berlinale presents San Sebastián award winner El Castillo (The Castle) a strangely moving mixture of documentary and fiction by Martin Benchimol.

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★★★★, Cannes Film Festival 2022, Italy, London Film Festival 2022, out now, Poland, Reviews, UKFebruary 2, 2023

EO (2022)

By Alexa Dalby

span style=”color:#D1A316″>★★★★☆
EO, veteran director Jerzy Skolimowski’s compelling, beautifully shot homage to Bresson’s classic, takes a donkey’s eye view of the vagaries of life.

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★★★★★, Cannes Film Festival 2022, Japan, Korea, London Film Festival 2022, Mubi, out nowFebruary 1, 2023

Decision to Leave (2022)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Cannes-award-winning unforgettable Decision to Leave directed with pyrotechnical flair by Park Chan-wook is a haunting Korean neo-noir and yet so much more.

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★★★★, Black filmmakers, Female Filmmakers, France, out now, Reviews, Venice Biennale 2022January 30, 2023

Saint Omer (2022)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Saint Omer by Alice Diop is a harrowing and haunting political drama about the complexities of being a Black woman and the pressures of motherhood, inspired by real events.

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★★★★, Cannes Film Festival 2022, Denmark, Drama, France, Germany, Mubi, out nowJanuary 19, 2023

Holy Spider (Ankabut-e moqaddas) (2022)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Holy Spider, angrily written and directed by Ali Abbasi (Border), is a grisly, reality-based story of violence against women in a patriarchal, theocratic society.

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★★★, Austria, Berlin Film Festival 2022, Berlinale, Curzon Home Cinema, Germany, out now, queer, ReviewsDecember 20, 2022

Peter von Kant (2022)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
Peter von Kant is a gender-flipped re-imagining by François Ozon of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1972 classic power play of sexual obsession The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant.

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★★★★, Austria, biopic, Cannes Film Festival 2022, Curzon Home Cinema, Female Filmmakers, Germany, London Film Festival 2022, out now, Reviews, Women FilmmakersDecember 12, 2022

Corsage (2022)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
A compelling woman-led re-imagining of the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria in Corsage, directed by Marie Kreutzer and starring Vicky Krieps.

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