Pacifiction uses its thin narrative elements as a pretense to explore the texture of uncertainty, suspicion, and inaction.
The film’s mood is one of ripe sensuality rather than pornographic exploitation.
Serra’s meticulous attention to ambient sound and the bodily noises of impending death are excellently conveyed on this release.
Albert Serra’s film ultimately emerges as a compact, improbably riveting viewing experience.
True to its title, the film approaches death as both narrative endpoint and formal focus.
As a kind of “festival of festivals,” the Viennale is one of the most esteemed fixtures in the world-cinema circuit.
Călin Peter Netzer’s Child’s Pose, more than the complicated milieu it depicts, is at odds with itself.
For the 11 days over which the 66th Locarno Film Festival took place, the Swiss city was a colony of leopards.
The Dream of Eleuteria is the sort of film that one expects to discover at the Viennale.
Serra provides an essentially ambient experience from the platform of Christian myth.