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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

@Alexa_Dalby

Austria, Germany, Picturehouse, Reviews, Switzerland, Venice Biennale 2023December 11, 2024

The Universal Theory (2023) (Die Theorie von Allem)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
The Universal Theory directed by Timm Kröger is a stunning homage to all those black-and-white film-noir mysteries of the 1940s with a dreamlike sci-fi twist.

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BBC iPlayer, Reviews, UKDecember 10, 2024

From Roger Moore With Love (2024)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆

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★★★★, Awards, BFI London Film Festival 2024, debut director, documentary, Female Filmmakers, out now, Reviews, UK, USANovember 26, 2024

The Taste of Mango (2023)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
The Taste of Mango is an impressionistic collage of female abuse through three generations bound by enduring love.

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★★★★★, BFI London Film Festival 2024, Cannes Film Festival 2024, Female Filmmakers, France, India, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, out now, Reviews, Women FilmmakersNovember 22, 2024

All We Imagine As Light (2024)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★★
All We Imagine As Light is a beautiful film about the contrasting lives of three women in India, the second film directed by award-winning Payal Kapadia.

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★★★★, Berlin Film Festival 2025, Berlinale, Costa Rica, documentary, Female Filmmakers, first feature, out now, Reviews, Spain, Women FilmmakersNovember 13, 2024

Memories of a Burning Body (2024) (Memorias de un Cuerpo que Arde)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Memories of a Burning Body is an incredibly moving, candid docufiction about older women’s sexuality, directed by award-winning Antonella Sudasassi Furniss.

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★★★★, fashion, Italy, music, out now, Reviews, Rome 2024October 26, 2024

Rome 2024: The Opera! Arias for an Eclipse (2024) (Arie per un’eclissi)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
The Opera! Arias for an Eclipse is the extraordinary, unique artistic vision of Davide Livermore and Paolo Gep Cucco.

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★★★, Digital download, features, Lee Tamahori, New Zealand, out now, ReviewsOctober 20, 2024

The Convert (2024)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
The Convert by Maori director Lee Tamahori, angry as his country is colonised by the British, set in 1834.

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★★★, biopic, festivals, Italy, out now, Reviews, Rome 2024October 20, 2024

Rome 2024: Eternal Visionary (2024) (Eterno Visionario)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
In Eternal Visionary director Michele Placido’s biopic takes us through the life of one of the 20th century’s most influential writers, Luigi Pirandello.

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BFI London Film Festival 2024, out now, ReviewsOctober 20, 2024

BFI LFF 2024 Award Winners

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
BFI LFF 2024 Award Winners

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★★★, documentary, Female Filmmakers, festivals, Locarno Film Festival 2024, out now, Reviews, Sundance, UKOctober 18, 2024

BFI LFF 2024: Mother Vera (2024)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
Mother Vera is an award-winning documentary by Cécile Embleton and Alys Tomlinson that enthrallingly reveals the life of a nun in Belarusia both pre- and post-convent.

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★★★, Cannes Film Festival 2023, France, out now, ReviewsOctober 18, 2024

The Crime is Mine (2023) (Mon Crime)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
The Crime is Mine directed by François Ozon is a fast-moving comedy wolf in sheep’s clothing about gay rights and women’s equality, starring Isabelle Huppert.

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★★★★★, BFI London Film Festival 2024, Cannes Film Festival 2024, Female Filmmakers, France, India, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, out nowOctober 18, 2024

BFI LFF 2024: All We Imagine As Light (2024)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
All We Imagine As Light is a beautiful film about the contrasting lives of three women in India, the second film directed by award-winning Payal Kapadia.

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Alexa Dalby, festivals, Italy, ReviewsOctober 15, 2024

ROME FILM FESTIVAL 2024: 16-27 OCTOBER 2024

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Rome Film Festival 2024

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★★★★, BFI London Film Festival 2024, France, Italy, out now, Qatar, Reviews, Saudi Arabia, Venice Biennale 2024October 11, 2024

BFI London Film Festival 2024: Aïcha (2023)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
Aïcha, directed by Mehdi Barsaoui, is a gripping, thrilling study of the evolution of a young woman as she tries to find a new life and new identity after being assumed dead, amid endemic corruption in Tunisia.

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