Watch-List 04/22
A list of all the great and interesting films and shows I’ve seen recently.
Films
A Chiara – ★★★½
Beautiful little Italian-language arthouse drama “A Chiara” written and directed by Jonas Carpignano has been released in cinemas this week in Germany. Set in a Calabrian town it follows teenage girl Chiara looking for her father, whose disappearance in the night of her sister’s 18th birthday seems to be related to the local mafia. Shot
L’événement (Happening) – ★★★★
The great 2021 French drama L’événement (Happening) by directress Audrey Diwan was released recently. It follows young promising literature student Anne (Anamaria Vartolomei) in the 60’s who gets pregnant before her final exams and tries to get an abortion, which was illegal at the time, bore great health dangers and could even lead to her
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jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy – ★★★★
The three-part documentary “jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy” filmed and directed by Coodie & Chike about the life of rapper, record producer and fashion designer Kanye West was released on Netflix. It features a detailed collage of natural moments and off-screen narration by Coodie, who knew Kanye from when he wasn’t famous yet and started filming
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Chinese Portrait – ★★★★
我的镜头 – (Chinese Portrait) is a great documentary film by Chinese filmmaker Wang Xiaoshuai (So Long, My Son) from the year 2018. It features around 60 finely composed shots filmed over seven years showing people or the director himself in different locales and situations in China standing still and looking into the camera while life
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76 Days – ★★★★
The 2020 Chinese-American Documentary film 76 Days directed by Hao Wu, Weixi Chen and an anonymous third is available on YouTube and Dogwoof. It documents the situation in a Wuhan Hospital in China shortly after the beginning of the first COVID-19 pandemic lockdown of the city in February 2020 that lasted for 76 days. In
Cow – ★★★★
The great nonverbal documentary film “Cow” by British filmmaker Andrea Arnold that premiered last year at Cannes is now finally available for streaming on Mubi. The film is an intimate portrait of a milking cow and follows her in her everyday life on a farm in the UK. It’s style is naturalistic and contemplative with