REVIEW: Fugitive Dreams (MANIFF 2021)
It’s hard to accurately summarise Jason Neulander’s Fugitive Dreams. On the one hand, watching the film is like being thrown into a surreal, Kaufman-esque, tripped out, biblical fever dream. On the other hand, (as its synopsis states) it’s a road trip through rural Americana, with…
REVIEW: Trouble Will Find Us (MANIFF 2021)
Films about romantic relationships can be challenging to get right. There are several factors for this – dialogue and the emotional stakes, for example, leaps to the forefront. But the obvious one comes down to believability. Characters have to feel authentic and genuine. And no…
REVIEW: The Catch (MANIFF 2021)
“You can’t keep running away” – and yet that is the central theme that sums up Beth McManus (Katia Winter). We’re cryptically introduced to Beth – in a dazed and panic frenzy, she packs her things and travels back home to her estranged family in…
