Berlin film festival 2023
On the Adamant review – Berlin winner offers art and soul aboard a floating Parisian day-care centre
Nicolas Philibert’s warm and sympathetic documentary about a boat for mental-health patients on the Seine is a worthy winner of the Berlin film festival’s Golden Bear
Peter Bradshaw
01, Mar, 2023 @5:44 PM
Ukrainian volunteer medic’s film aims to ‘wake up the world’ to reality of war
Eastern Front, shown at the Berlin film festival, offers an uncensored view from the frontline of conflict
Kate Connolly in Berlin
27, Feb, 2023 @5:00 AM
Music review – shapeshifting puzzle is an enigmatic mind bender
Angela Schanelec’s disparate series of stark and startling tableaux appear to be showing us the key to some locked cabinet of significance – but any meaning feels out of reach
Peter Bradshaw
24, Feb, 2023 @2:56 PM
Reality review – word-for-word replay of FBI interrogation is uncannily brilliant
Using the transcript of the arrest of whisteblower Reality Winner, Tina Satter’s superb piece of verbatim cinema asks questions about how power is wielded in real life
Peter Bradshaw
24, Feb, 2023 @1:44 PM
Limbo review – hardbitten outback noir with a compassionate heart
Simon Baker plays a ruined cop investigating a cold-case murder in this tough, sandblasted thriller that coolly lays out the racism and discrimination the Indigenous population face
Peter Bradshaw
23, Feb, 2023 @6:30 PM
Suzume review – Makoto Shinkai’s charming modern Alice in Wonderland
The Your Name director’s mythic and comic new animation is an absorbing, intriguing and bewildering work
Peter Bradshaw
23, Feb, 2023 @3:15 PM
Afire (Roter Himmel) review – useless-author comedy-drama in saga of angst and lust
A gloomy writer and his friend are trapped with strangers in a Baltic holiday home in Christian Petzold’s tonally wayward tale
Peter Bradshaw
22, Feb, 2023 @6:30 PM
20,000 Species of Bees review – trans kid struggles to find a place in family eco-system
A child’s gender identity crisis is mirrored by her mother’s crisis of identity as an artist in this warm, generously performed film
Peter Bradshaw
22, Feb, 2023 @3:00 PM
The Teachers’ Lounge review – a deeply unsettling day at the chalkface unravels
This uncompromising classroom drama from director Ìlker Çatak initially tackles some insidious and uncomfortable truths, but never quite finds its full dramatic force
Peter Bradshaw
22, Feb, 2023 @11:25 AM
Tótem review – family tensions feel real in heartfelt Mexican cancer drama
The family of a young father dying of cancer organise a party for him in this tender story from director Lila Avilés that lacks dramatic weight
Peter Bradshaw
21, Feb, 2023 @5:04 PM
Golda review – lifeless Meir biopic hides Helen Mirren’s talent in a cloud of cigarette smoke
As a drama about the Yom Kippur war, this film is bafflingly dull. As a portrait of Golda Meir, Israel’s prime minister at the time, it’s even worse
Peter Bradshaw
20, Feb, 2023 @9:58 PM
Inside review – Willem Dafoe’s thief suffers for his art
Dafoe excels as an art thief trapped inside a super-rich art collector’s apartment in this claustrophobic fiction feature debut from Vasilis Katsoupis
Peter Bradshaw
20, Feb, 2023 @6:00 PM
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