Savina Petkova, Author at The Playlist

‘Eureka’ Review: ‘Jauja’ Filmmaker Lisandro Alonso Returns With Viggo Mortensen & Chiara Mastroianni For An Inconsistent Triptych [Cannes]

May 21, 2023 8:53 am

“Eureka” seems somewhat deceitfully simple: a man called Murphy (Viggo Mortensen) searches for his abducted daughter with the help of the mysterious El Coronel (Chiara Mastroianni), even if he has to shoot eve...

‘About Dry Grasses’ Review: An Assured, Strong Cannes Comeback for Nuri Bilge Ceylan [Cannes]

Savina Petkova

May 20, 2023 12:40 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

Nuri Bilge Ceylan has been a Cannes regular since his debut short, “Koza,” in 1995. An assured auteur from the very beginning, Ceylan made a name for Turkey on the festival circuit, and every year he brin...

‘Afire’ Review: Christian Petzold Delivers A Cinematic Miracle Between The Burning Forest & The Sea [Berlin]

Savina Petkova

February 22, 2023 1:30 pm

Features, Festivals, News, Reviews

Billed as the second installment of an elemental triptych, “Afire” comes after Christian Petzold’s 2020 film “Undine” where Paula Beer gave a Silver Bear-winning performance at Berlinale as the titular charact...

‘Ingeborg Bachman – Journey Into The Desert’ Review: Vicky Krieps’s Sensational Performance Leads Period Piece About Art, Love, And Suspicion [Berlin]

Savina Petkova

February 20, 2023 11:46 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

From "Rosa Luxemburg" in 1986 to 2012’s "Hannah Arendt," the films of Margarethe Von Trotta, an icon of the New German cinema, have put strong female protagonists center-stage in renditions of German history. ...

‘Disco Boy’ Review: A Great Performance From Franz Rogowski Cannot Save a Derivative Debut [Berlin]

Savina Petkova

February 20, 2023 9:53 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

Young Belarusian Aleksei (Franz Rogowski) is impatient for a better life in Europe. Coming from a country under dictatorship and with very strong Russian ties, the political isolation of which has made it suff...

‘Luka’ Review: Jessica Woodworth Crafts a Carnally Sublime World Of Men, Power & Desire [IFF Rotterdam Review]

Savina Petkova

January 30, 2023 1:36 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

After films like “Khadak,” “La Cinquième Saison,” and most recently, “The Barefoot Emperor” (all co-directed with Peter Brosens), Belgian-American filmmaker Jessica Woodworth goes solo with the black and white...

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