RETRIBUTION
Watchable. Liam Neeson is superb as an old man tired of life, though his visible eye make-up is a serious distraction. Emily Kusche plays an episode as Zach's girlfriend Mila. Great electronic music and sound effects in Atmos clarity. The thriller is gripping: there's a menace, a puzzle, suspense. It's a shame the investment fund pretext for the plot is treated so superficially. But a solid actioner it is.
THE NUN II
Walked out. A sequence of jump scares, a bit of a run-of-the-mill story, jump scars, a bit of a story etc. It's slow-paced, repetitive, uses overly exploited horror gimmicks and plot cliches. And the possessed grunt like pigs. Ludicrous.
HER DOCS FORUM
ЦЕ ПОБАЧЕННЯ (IT'S A DATE)
Watchable. This short film puts you behind the wheel of a vehicle rushing through the streets of Kyiv so fast that you see the atmospheric reddish lights along the road but can barely notice any details of the buildings. When the two girls finally fall into each other's embrace, you know it's a romantic town, even if the hurried ride wasn't.
Reviewed from the organizers' screener, cinematic reception might differ.
THE BEE
Watchable. This short film is an atmospheric artistic vision. Enticing music gives way to slightly unsettling warning sirens-like sounds. The person's actions, shot in black and white, are incomprehensible until the last minute, spoken in Ukrainian, reveals it's a representation of a refugee's, presumably, judging by Migros bags, in Switzerland, emotional states.
Reviewed from the organizers' screener, cinematic reception might differ.
VEILLEURS DE NUIT (NIGHTWATCHERS)
Watchable. A French observational documentary about volunteers helping refugees.crossing the Italian border into France. While you learn that pushbacks aren't just a Polish speciality, hear of appalling beatings and bullets fired in Libya, Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia or of the French border police blackmailing business owners whose employees volunteer, it's all hearsay. Stunning day, dusk, night and dawn views of the mountains would appear enchanting but for the hypothermia the passage induces. Frostbite, other injures, deaths in accidents don't deter anyone from crossing and the more obstacles are created to hinder the passage, the more suffering results. A bleak picture of humanity.
Reviewed from the organizers' screener, cinematic reception might differ.
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