Posts in Taylor Beaumont
VIFF 2021 REVIEW | "The Worst Person in the World" a Mixed Bag of Chapters from the Life

“Reinsve, in a Cannes Best Actress-winning performance, embodies all the tumult of her character’s wild and wavering inhibitions, her angst filtered into pointed attacks as often as it is re-directed inwards.”

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VIFF 2021 REVIEW | "Bergman Island" is a Simmering Summer Interlude

“Hansen-Løve’s film […] is a dramatically subdued affair, but one that reveals a flowering complexity through its multi-layered approach to storytelling and its humane ruminations on the islands we forge for creative fulfillment amongst personal disillusionment.”

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FANTASIA 2021 | Ages Through the Eyes of a Girl in "All the Moons"

All the Moons is slower-paced vampire fare, and short on the grisly thrills that fans of the genre have come to love, but it is thick with the genre’s intoxicating moroseness, and an almost storybook-like structure with distinct phases.”

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FANTASIA 2021 | Going Jet-Set in Japan with "Dreams on Fire"

“McKie enlisted real dancers in the Tokyo scene for his film, and it is both exhilarating and enlightening to see how the dance styles of popping, locking, voguing, krumping and more express themselves with Tokyo’s modern hip-hop disciples.”

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