Montreal World Film Festival (FFM, 2013) - reviews
Check my recently posted reviews of The Whirlpool, The Verdict and the Iranian three grand peaces at the Montreal World Film Fesival's Blog.
A serbian review of The Whirlpool (Vir, Serbia, 2013)
Three years after its absence in the MMF's competition programs, the Serbian cinema can be proud of its comeback with Bojan Vuk Kosovcevic’s movie The Whirlpool, competed in the first films selection. Made for modest, less than $300.000, Kosovcevic’s piece drew much attention with its maturity in expression and skillful directing in accordance with contemporary cinematic style mainly seen in big-budget productions. Blending some of the classical drama ...
16.09.2013 | The Montreal World Film Festival's blog |
Review of The Verdict (Het Vonnis, Belgium, 2013) which won best Directing at FFM 2013
The verdict of this year FFM’s jury led by legendary European filmmaker Jiri Menzel that best directing was demonstrated by Jan Verheyen in The Verdict, restores faith in justice, what is actually in the core of this extremely intelligent Belgian achievement. Furthermore, I would say that this piece is not just this year’s FFM highlight, but one of the peaks of recent European cinema. Starting as a profound psychological drama about a prominent engineer whose wife gets...
16.09.2013 | The Montreal World Film Festival's blog |
Iranian three grand peaces at Montreal FFM
by Dejan Nikolaj Kraljacic - Dex (Montreal ) Although one of the most successful cinemas in the festival circuit since the mid-1990s, it seems that this year’s MMF offer of Iranian films should undoubtably resonate for a long time. Obviously, each year we are witnessing more and more courageous Iranian films given the context of their country of origin (absolutely the most restrictive worldwide in terms of censorship, ever!), but, I would say that finally Abolfazl S...
16.09.2013 | The Montreal World Film Festival's blog |
