Locarno Archives | High On Films https://www.highonfilms.com/category/review/film-festivals/locarno/ Taking Care of Your Cinematic Ecstasy Sun, 30 Jul 2023 17:16:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.1 https://www.highonfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/cropped-logo-mark-colour-01-32x32.png Locarno Archives | High On Films https://www.highonfilms.com/category/review/film-festivals/locarno/ 32 32 Semret [2022]: ‘Locarno’ Review – A Nuanced and Compassionate Look at the Immigration Experience https://www.highonfilms.com/semret-2022-locarno-review/ https://www.highonfilms.com/semret-2022-locarno-review/#respond Thu, 11 Aug 2022 05:47:38 +0000 https://www.highonfilms.com/?p=62664 Swiss filmmaker & Editor Caterina Mona’s feature-film directorial debut, Semret (2022) revolves around a traumatized immigrant single-mother and her teenage daughter. British Eritrean actor, poet, songwriter, and presenter Lula Mebrahtu gives a brilliant understated performance in the titular role. Lula has hosted music festivals and a series of BBC documentaries. I first came to know…

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]]> https://www.highonfilms.com/semret-2022-locarno-review/feed/ 0 Matter Out of Place [2022]: ‘Locarno’ Review – We Have A Serious Garbage Problem! https://www.highonfilms.com/matter-out-of-place-2022-locarno-review/ https://www.highonfilms.com/matter-out-of-place-2022-locarno-review/#respond Wed, 10 Aug 2022 13:33:11 +0000 https://www.highonfilms.com/?p=62615 Matter Out of Place, or its acronym MOOP refers to things or stuff that doesn’t belong to the immediate environment. Waste and debris like plastic, glass, metal, etc are largely defined as MOOP. The deeply perceptive Austrian documentarian Nikolaus Geyrhalter follows such matter out of place and looks at the people and mechanics involved in…

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]]> https://www.highonfilms.com/matter-out-of-place-2022-locarno-review/feed/ 0 Fledglings [2022]: ‘Locarno’ Review – A Profoundly Touching Documentary on the Visually-Impaired Kids https://www.highonfilms.com/fledglings-2022-locarno-review/ https://www.highonfilms.com/fledglings-2022-locarno-review/#respond Mon, 08 Aug 2022 09:24:01 +0000 https://www.highonfilms.com/?p=62451 It’s a major challenge to deal with the subject of visual impairment in a movie or a documentary. Because cinema often uses people’s sight as a prominent tool to guide us through certain experiences. Nevertheless, there have been quite a few filmmakers who respectfully and intimately wade into the world of visually impaired individuals, and…

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]]> https://www.highonfilms.com/fledglings-2022-locarno-review/feed/ 0 A Perfect Day for Caribou [2022]: ‘Locarno’ Review – An Oddly Touching Drama with an Interesting Mix of Dry Humor, Absurdism, and Melancholy https://www.highonfilms.com/a-perfect-day-for-caribou-2022-locarno-review/ https://www.highonfilms.com/a-perfect-day-for-caribou-2022-locarno-review/#respond Sat, 06 Aug 2022 09:40:47 +0000 https://www.highonfilms.com/?p=62346 Jeff Rutherford’s feature-film directorial debut A Perfect Day for Caribou (2022) carries the spirit of Jim Jarmusch. On the outset, it seems to be telling the tale of an estranged father and son. It is set in the vast, rural region of Mid-West America, and somewhere in the 1990s when people used brick-like mobile phones.…

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]]> https://www.highonfilms.com/a-perfect-day-for-caribou-2022-locarno-review/feed/ 0 Soul of a Beast [2021]: ‘Locarno’ Review – A Visual Fantasy with Entertainingly Deranged Moments https://www.highonfilms.com/soul-of-a-beast-2021-locarno-review/ https://www.highonfilms.com/soul-of-a-beast-2021-locarno-review/#respond Mon, 23 Aug 2021 17:27:13 +0000 https://www.highonfilms.com/?p=46897 On the surface, Soul of a Beast (2021) is one of the most conventional narratives to have resurfaced in the foreign cinema circuit after such a long time. The three folds of time- past, present, and future, almost serve a three-act structure for the film’s platter. It has got a beautiful chick, her charming young…

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]]> https://www.highonfilms.com/soul-of-a-beast-2021-locarno-review/feed/ 0 The Sadness [2021]: ‘Locarno’ Review – An Interesting Gore Fest that Never Takes Off https://www.highonfilms.com/the-sadness-2021-locarno-review/ https://www.highonfilms.com/the-sadness-2021-locarno-review/#respond Sun, 22 Aug 2021 08:49:39 +0000 https://www.highonfilms.com/?p=46828 It would be too straightforward to brand ‘The Sadness’ as a zombie film. Despite the lack of official word, the film seems to be a re-imagining of Joe Lynch’s 2017 cult-classic ‘Mayhem’. Comparatively, the latter has a lot more work to do due to the larger-scale violence than the former. But instead of the “Red…

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