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Locarno 2025 Review: PHANTOMS OF JULY Excavates Local Mythology Through Soft Melancholy and Mundane Surrealism
German director Julian Radlmaier shifts from overt satire to a more lyrical mode, delivering a psychogeographic portrait of precarious lives and fleeting solidarities in a post-socialist landscape.
Review: THE GIRL AND THE SPIDER, A Weekend of Quiet Revelation
Henriette Confurius and Liliane Amuat star in Silvan & Ramon Zürcher's soul-stirring slice-of-life drama.
Review: BELOVED SISTERS, Characters Who Never Become Real People
More than a film about a romantic ménage a trois, Beloved Sisters is just as well the story of two sisters, two women who swear loyalty to each other and keep their oath in spite of the biggest challenge their...
Review: BELOVED SISTERS Breaks With Its Own Illusion
It's curious that the poster of Dominik Graf's Beloved Sisters shows a man, namely the poet Friedrich Schiller, in the foreground while putting the two women who the movie actually focuses on into the background. This alignment is quite misleading...
