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Charlatan review: Czech post-war fear and malady


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Agnieszka Holland is not one for heroes and villains. The Polish director has revisited the darkest power abuses of Europe’s last century throughout her career – depicting the Holocaust in Europa Europa (1991) and In Darkness (2011), and Soviet Ukraine’s Holodomor in Mr. Jones (2019) – with an emphasis not on ideological divisions but the capacity within every human, tested by high-stakes oppression, for both great integrity and the pettiest of cruelties.
A deep moral ambiguity drives psychological suspense, too, in Charlatan, her loosely inspired biopic of Jan Mikolášek, a herbalist persecuted by the Czechoslovak state. Regimes come and go in a film set in the communist 1950s that flashes back frequently to the Nazi-occupied 30s, but the pressure on citizens to bend their allegiance to corrupt systems, or at least blend in, is constant, with falling out of favour for refusing to conform potentially deadly.

Czech-republic , Prague , Praha , Hlavníesto , Poland , Polish , Czech , Joe-pesci , Colson-whitehead , Satyajit-ray , Ivan-trojan , Martin-bormann

Cowboys review: a gung-ho transgender childhood drama


Cowboys was made during the twilight of Donald Trump’s presidency, which saw the dialling back of health protections for trans people and a military ban, since overturned by Joe Biden. Right-wing commentators during the Trump era dedicated many hours to mocking transgender people, with trans kids being weaponised as evidence that the ‘trans agenda’ has gone ‘too far’, and that children are incapable of identifying as anything other than their assigned gender at birth.
In this context, Anna Kerrigan’s Cowboys – in which Troy (Steve Zahn) goes on the run with his young trans son Joe (Sasha Knight) through rural Montana, a solid Republican state – stands as a forceful bid for tolerance and acceptance. The two males hope to cross over to Canada, a migration many Americans pledged to make following the election of Donald Trump in 2016, seeing the country as a liberal haven compared to the bigotry associated with Trumpism. Flashbacks show how Troy and his wife Sally (Jillian Bell) reacted in very different ways when Joe came out as trans.

Montana , United-states , Canada , Americans , American , Joe-pesci , Sally-jillian-bell , Colson-whitehead , Satyajit-ray , Joe-sasha-knight , Donald-trump , Sasha-knight

Zana review: Kosovan town's obsession with fertility


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▶︎ Zana is available to stream on BFI Player, Curzon Home Cinema and other digital platforms, and to buy on DVD.
A woman leads a placid cow through a drowsy summer meadow; the air thrums with clean life as they pick their way down to a stream. But when they get there, the water is foul: a bovine corpse is rotting in the mud. The woman recoils, turning back towards the living cow she has been leading. But she’s gone – there’s only lush summer air where the cow used to be. Most chillingly of all, the woman doesn’t seem particularly surprised. 

Kosovo , Joe-pesci , Ilir-astrit-kabashi , Colson-whitehead , Roman-polanski-rosemary , Satyajit-ray , Alice-lowe , Adriana-matoshi , Antoneta-kastrati , Remzije-fatmire-sahiti , Barry-jenkins , Jason-reitman-juno

Atlantis review: glints of hope in war-torn Ukraine


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The orange-green glow of heat camera footage reveals a couple of figures, likely soldiers given their bulky clothing and weaponry, standing around a small trench. A prostrate body is dragged in and pitched into the shallow grave, shovelfuls of dirt slung over it.
The image is so alien it takes a minute to process its real horror – the blob representing the victim is glowing orange as the black earth gradually obscures it: he is being buried alive. Ukrainian director Valentyn Vasyanovych’s remarkable Venice 2019 Horizons winner Atlantis may immediately switch to exquisitely composed, live-action images of startlingly crisp, austere devastation but his film’s most potent motifs are all established in this eerie, alien opening: war, death, callousness, heat and dirt.

Ukraine , Ukrainian , Joe-pesci , Colson-whitehead , Satyajit-ray , Sergiy-andriy-rymaruk , Serhiy-stepansky , Miroslav-slaboshpitskiy , Tarkovsky-stalker , Barry-jenkins , Katya-liudmyla-bileka , Martin-scorsese

Apples review: a deadpan take on the will to forget

As a pandemic of amnesia hits Greece, forcing forgotten souls to reconstruct their identities, we wonder whether one man just wants the chance to start again.

Joe-pesci , Colson-whitehead , Satyajit-ray , Aris-servetalis , Babis-makridis , Anna-kalaitzidou , Argyris-bakirtzis , Claire-carr , Barry-jenkins , Martin-scorsese , Polaroid , Disturbed-memory-department

Antebellum review: unpleasantly brutal racism


Antebellum is an infuriating film that contorts itself in order to pull off an excruciatingly banal twist. It is ambitious, attempting to peel back just what Making America Great Again would involve, but stops short of having any insight into racism, nostalgia or indeed its own main character. 
Janelle Monáe is wasted on the part of Eden, a slave on a plantation run by Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War. The slaves are gleefully tortured, branded, raped and murdered by the Confederates, who don’t allow them to speak unless spoken to. Having rendered most of the cast mute, the first act relies on stylised scenes of empty brutality, never giving any interiority to either the slaves or the slave-masters. Presenting the Confederates as moustache-twirling pantomime villains with no motivations beyond an overwhelming hatred of Black people is increasingly tedious as the film goes on.

United-states , Americans , America , American , Joe-pesci , Colson-whitehead , Satyajit-ray , Gerard-bush , Gabourey-sidibe , Christopher-renz , Barry-jenkins , Janelle-mon

Barry Jenkins is rebuilding American history


The Underground Railroad is available on Amazon Prime from 14 May 2021.
When Barry Jenkins first heard of the underground railroad as a child, he pictured Black men and women building, piloting and riding steam trains through the innards of antebellum America, whisking slaves away from the plantations of the South to freedom in the North.
“There was something magical about it,” Jenkins tells me over Zoom on a Saturday morning in March. “I still remember it as being one of the purest senses of pride for being Black that I’ve ever had.”
Learning, eventually, that the railroad was actually a metaphor for the informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by runaway slaves was like discovering “that Santa Claus and the tooth fairy aren’t real”, Jenkins says. It wasn’t so much the loss of a fantasy as an awakening to the enormity of what it took to flee slavery – a system so bloodcurdlingly wretched, and so deeply entrenched, that even a prosaic escape acquired a mythic glint.

Germany , Georgia , United-states , Stone-mountain , Tennessee , Hong-kong , North-carolina , Chung-king , Chongqing , China , South-carolina , Jordan

How do actors like Daniel Kaluuya master new accents?


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“It’s basically accent therapy,” says Audrey LeCrone, describing her job over Zoom. LeCrone is a dialect coach based in New Orleans who specialises in teaching non-American actors an American accent. Even for performers who clearly have a flair for the American accent, like Daniel Kaluuya – with whom LeCrone recently worked on Judas and the Black Messiah – a coach is vital.
“There’s still going to be certain rhythms or pitch patterns that are strange and that have to be monitored,” LeCrone says. This is particularly true when you’re playing, as Kaluuya is, a notable historical figure as voluble as the Black Panther leader Fred Hampton, who was killed by the FBI at the age of 21.

United-states , Ireland , United-kingdom , Dublin , Irish , American , British , Joe-pesci , Mike-myers , Satyajit-ray , Emily-blunt , Jill-mccullough

The Flight Attendant review: finest pandemic escapism


A frothy, frantic delight of a show, this darkly comic eight-episode murder mystery about a hard-drinking stewardess caught up in a Bangkok killing is pandemic escapism at its finest. Even before party-animal and black-out drunk Cassie (a deliciously scatty Kaley Cuoco) wakes to find wealthy one-night stand Alex with his throat cut and flees the crime scene, this glossy global caper taunts us with its heedless hook-ups, deliriously crammed bars and seamless, maskless air-travel. 
Smart, sheenily stylish and formally daring, The Flight Attendant feels a long way from the brittle neo-noir of Sidney Lumet’s similarly premised The Morning After (1986). Cheerfully pillaging thrillers past and present to create its bouncy Hitchcock-lite feel, it summons a 70s Foul Play-style screwball vibe as Cassie turns detective to try to prove her innocence. This is nimbly updated with the genre-skipping and amateur sleuthing of Search Party (2016-), and a hint of the winking surrealism of Russian Doll (2019-). Unstintingly playful in its plotting and retro touches (the sub-Saul Bass pop art credits, and nervy, jangly Blake Neely jazz theme are a blast), the show makes heavy use of split screens, sliding frames and quick cutting to splice together an artful mix of murder mystery, millennial comedy and character study.

Bangkok , Krung-thep-mahanakhon , Thailand , New-york , United-states , Rome , Lazio , Italy , Russia , Russian , Joe-pesci , Steve-yockey

Exterminate All the Brutes review: genocide's march


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Exterminate All the Brutes (four episodes) is available on Sky Documentaries and Now TV from 1 May 2021.
In the wake of I Am Not Your Negro (2016), Raoul Peck’s genre-bending documentary about James Baldwin, the director gives us another kind of biography – of the globe. Exterminate All the Brutes is no less than a documentary history of the world in three words: “Civilisation, colonisation, extermination,” the commentary intones at the start of the first of four hour-long parts.

United-states , Democratic-republic-of-the-congo , Hiroshima , Japan , Congo , Florida , Colombia , Oregon , Algiers , Alger , Algeria , Brooklyn