FILMS

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    PSIFF 2018 – Days Eight, Nine and TEN

    "The Motive" from Spain, is a  darkly funny new film from acclaimed director Manuel Martin Cuenca. Aspiring novelist Álvaro toils away as a notary until his wife’s affair pushes him into a bachelor’s flat and the lives of his new…

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    PSIFF 2018 – Days Six and Seven

    "The Cousins", from Israel, wherein Israeli filmmaker Naftali intends to get repairs done around the house and satisfy his left-wing principles by hiring a Palestinian handyman, but the renovations don’t proceed as planned.  The film uses the old saying in…

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    2018 PSIFF – Day Five

    "Thelma" from Norway - Shy Thelma leaves her religious family in a small town on the west coast of Norway to attend university in Oslo. Thelma’s attraction to an alluring female student develops simultaneously with mysterious seizures—symptoms of an inexplicable,…

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    PSIFF 2018 Day FOUR

    In Man don't Cry Some 20 years after the armed conflict in ex-Yugoslavia, a group of veterans gathers at a remote mountain hotel for an extended groip therapy session, but find catharsis is not so simple. The second film is…

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    PSIFF 2018 Day Three

    Day Three was a great day for me. A sprightly biopic about Michalina Wisłocka, the Polish doctor who revolutionized the sexual life of her country in the middle of the communist regime. Her message: the most important thing in a…

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    PSIFF2018 – Day Two

    In "Happy End" from France Michael Haneke’s direction brings a diamond-cutter’s precision, a wicked jolt of black humor, and a startling finale that’s 100-proof Haneke.  As the Guardian review states this is a blunt, rasping comedy to be found in its…

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    PSIFF 2018 first full day

    I saw three films today.  From Argentina "Summit" features a newly elected President, bit of a dark horse who got elected as a mix of dark horse with relatively blank-slate everyman. His first major test as a leader is a summit,…

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    2018 PSIFF – the foreplay

    While the festival's opening night is tonight - there were seven films available during the day - and I made two good choices. In  "The Third Murder" from Japan - three lawyers defend a man who has confessed and in…