Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Ariel Kleiman Stars: Vincent Cassel, Jeremy Chabriel, Florence Mazzara. Australian filmmaker Ariel Kleiman hails from a background in short films and short documentaries (his 2010 20-minute short Deeper Than Yesterday has won several awards) and this background shapes his debut feature film. The grim but flawed Partisan is a bleak… Continue Reading »
PARTISAN – ARIEL KLEIMAN INTERVIEW
by GREG KING. “My short films were made as student films in a very unprofessional and renegade manner, but I think that grounding helped,” says Australian filmmaker Ariel Kleiman about his debut feature film Partisan, which hits local cinemas on May 28. Partisan is a grim coming of age tale set against the backdrop of… Continue Reading »
IN BLOOM
Reviewed by GREG KING Directors: Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross Stars: Lika Babluani, Mariam Bokenia, Data Zakareishvili, Zurab Gogaladze. Life in Tbilisi, in Georgia Russia in 1992, was hard, and it seemed like a fairly grim place to live. The country had just achieved its independence as the former Soviet Union splintered, but as the… Continue Reading »
5 DAYS OF WAR
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Renny Harlin Stars: Rupert Friend, Andy Garcia, Richard Coyle, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Rade Serbedjiza, Heather Graham, Dean Cain, Val Kilmer. We’ve had other films that have explored the lot of journalists under fire in a war zone while trying to expose the ugly truth about the carnage behind the scenes, films… Continue Reading »
