Zurich Film Festival Archives

Johnny Depp’s ‘Richard Says Goodbye’ Is Dead On Arrival [Zurich Review]

October 8, 2018 11:35 am

Whoever it was who waggishly coined the inversion "forgotten but not gone" in reference to an overlong adieu might well have been talking about the extended leave-taking that forms the basis of Wayne Roberts' "...

‘Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.’ Is A Deep-Cut Doc About The Making Of A Singular Artist [Zurich Review]

Jessica Kiang

October 7, 2018 11:00 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

"Popular, popular, I'm really really pop-u-lar" goes the sardonic, off-the-cuff riff spontaneously spouted by controversial Sri Lankan-British hip-hop artist M.I.A. aka Maya, at an early point in Steve Loveridg...

Johnny Depp To Star In Ciro Guerra’s Next Film With Robert Pattinson [Zurich Film Festival]

Rodrigo Perez

October 6, 2018 10:33 am

News

Johnny Depp may be something of a persona non grata in North America, but the controversial actor was met with open arms at the Zurich Film Festival in Switzerland yesterday where he appeared as a guest of hono...

Funny, Tender, Delightful Debut ‘Before Summer Ends’ [Zurich Review]

Jessica Kiang

October 18, 2017 3:58 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

On the festival circuit, where Maryam Goormaghtigh's modest but deeply charming and affecting solo directorial debut "Before Summer Ends" will inevitably find its natural home, there's been a little hesitation ...

Savage, Sentimental, Surreal Slaughterhouse Romance ‘On Body And Soul’ [Zurich Review]

Jessica Kiang

October 9, 2017 4:48 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

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Love, the books and songs have taught us, can flourish in the unlikeliest of environments — in a cold climate, in a time of cholera, in an elevator. But the love story at the heart of Hungarian director Ildikó ...

Gripping, Chilling, Essential Predictive Policing Doc ‘Pre-Crime’ [Zurich Review]

Jessica Kiang

October 7, 2017 3:58 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

There is some comfort to be gained from dystopian sci-fi: no matter how realistically rendered, and how much it comments on current bleak realities, it presents a vision of the world as it is not -- at least, n...

Paulina Garcia Glimmers In Sweet, Simple ‘The Desert Bride’ [Zurich Review]

Jessica Kiang

October 5, 2017 4:17 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

It's not true that nothing grows in the desert. But the plants, creatures and people who make it their home require a certain strain of weathered, parched resilience. And perhaps a brief, unexpected dose of tha...

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