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The Silent Virgin
(La Virgen Silenciosa)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date November 27 2025
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(La Virgen Silenciosa)
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Director – Xavi Sala – 2025 – Mexico – 127m ***** A legal secretary frustrated in her job embarks on a relationship with another woman, but her possessive mother does not approve – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival This certainly knows how to grab your attention at the start. […]

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Next Sohee
(Da-eum So-hee,
다음 소희)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 14 2024
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(Da-eum So-hee,
다음 소희)
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Director – July Jung – 2022 – South Korea – Cert. 18 – 134m ***** A schoolgirl on an internship is appallingly exploited by her employers, and a police detective is called in to investigate – out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 14th Here’s a film which presents a real problem for reviewers. Something […]

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Light Falls

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date November 15 2023
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Director – Phedon Papamichael – 2023 – Georgia, Greece, Albania, Germany – Cert. none – 90m***** A Greek island, a lesbian couple from L.A., migrant Albanian workers, a racist cop, and an abandoned brutalist hotel… What could possibly go wrong? – terrific thriller premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition at the 27th Tallinn Black Nights […]

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Return to Seoul
(Retour à Séoul)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 2 2023
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(Retour à Séoul)
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Director – Davy Chou – 2022 – France, Belgium, Germany, South Korea – Cert. 15 – 118m ****1/2 A woman born in South Korea and fostered by parents in France unexpectedly returns to the land of her birth – on MUBI from Friday, July 7th Although it looks at first glance like a South Korean […]