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Nov 25, 2024 | 
dmovies.org | Jeremy Clarke |Vincenzo Alfieri |Petr Kazda |Tomás Weinreb
This PÖFF is going to be remembered by those of us at DMovies as the year when the weather we left behind us in the UK was colder and more wintry than the weather in Tallinn, where the average seemed to be between five and minus one degrees, very mild for this time of year. I’m checking the weather forecast over there as I write from the UK, to see that it is warmer still this week, and up to seven degrees tomorrow. Global warming is real, people.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
dmovies.org | Jeremy Clarke |Alexandre O. Philippe |Vincenzo Alfieri |Petr Kazda
QUICK AND DIRTY: LIVE FROM TALLINNThis starts off deceptively harmless with singing children’s voices, cutting into accompanying images of a school play with the children costumed as various types of flowers.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
dmovies.org | Jeremy Clarke |Xin Huo |Pilar Palomero
Gilda (Denise Fraga) has cancer and a year and a half left to live: “Chemo never worked. So I decided to beat the fucker to the punch”. She exasperates her husband when he hilariously stumbles into the bathroom as she’s trying to shoot herself in the head, both of them winding up in hospital as a result. She is determined to kill herself. If she does nothing, the condition will take its course and the end of the process won’t be pleasant.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
dmovies.org | Jeremy Clarke |Javier Cutrona |Petr Kazda |Tomás Weinreb
QUICK AND DIRTY: LIVE FROM TALLINNCredited on the Festival’s website as a Canadian production in the Burmese and Chinese languages, this is a Chinese-made film not sanctioned by the Chinese authorities dealing with subject matter which the filmmakers fear would not be passed by the Chinese censor. A number of the film’s cast and crew have used pseudonyms to avoid prosecution. The narrative takes place in the mountainous, Southern region of China close to the border with Myanmar.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
dmovies.org | Jeremy Clarke |Adilkhan Yerzhanov |Guel Arraes |Dito Tsintsadze
QUICK AND DIRTY: LIVE FROM TALLINNFound by the authorities, who apprehend him by a perimeter fence and remove his bag of home-made weaponry which includes a wooden bow and arrows and a knife carved from bone, which he will get back and make use of later in the plot, Moor is processed alongside wounded and traumatised veterans. He speaks few words and is in complete control of his faculties.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
dmovies.org | Jeremy Clarke |Alexandre O. Philippe |Jerome Yoo |Vinod Kapri
QUICK AND DIRTY: LIVE FROM TALLINNMorning. 40-year-old Sato wakes up, surrounded by bagged-up piles of manga, used food packaging and drink cans. The used food packaging squelches as he stretches into it. He is a slob. Meanwhile, his better-dressed, retired and widowed art teacher father is out teaching watercolour painting to a lady of a similar age to himself. They sit on the bank overlooking a picturesque river scene and seem to be enjoying both the act of painting and each other’s company.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
dmovies.org | Jeremy Clarke |Vincenzo Alfieri |Jérémy Clapin |Phedon Papamichael
QUICK AND DIRTY: LIVE FROM TALLINNThe concept of Johatsu or ‘vanished people’ – which is never explained here, merely name-checked in the title – originated in Japan, where it refers to people who vanish from their everyday lives without a trace. One way to achieve that goal would be to fake your own death, which is exactly what Lina (Zygimante Elena Jakstaite) believes she has stumbled upon someone doing as this opens. Lina works as an orderly in a morgue.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
dmovies.org | Jeremy Clarke |Bel Gatti |Nir Bergman |Felipe Sholl
QUICK AND DIRTY: LIVE FROM TALLINNA figure stands in interior darkness. Watching. She moves forward. She lies down on the bed. She sits up. She makes and eats a simple breakfast. She stands on a moving tram; the brown autumn leaves behind her. At her desk, wearing her military uniform, Sarah (Rebeka Poláková) details to the Commander his itinerary for the day, and fields requests from others for his attention. She seems content in her work.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
dmovies.org | Jeremy Clarke |Vincenzo Pirrotta |Phedon Papamichael |Dito Tsintsadze
QUICK AND DIRTY: LIVE FROM TALLINNAn unashamed genre piece, The Body is a giallo – an Italian crime and murder mystery named after the yellow book covers of their literary equivalents. While it absolutely fits into that very specific Italian genre, it’s actually the fourth remake of Spanish murder mystery The Body (Oriol Paulo, 2012) following remakes in India (twice, as Game, A.M.R. Ramesh, 2016 and The Body, Jeethu Joseph, 2019) and South Korea (The Vanished, Lee Chang-hee, 2018).
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
dmovies.org | Jeremy Clarke |Oliver Hirschbiegel |Albert Oehlen |Felipe Sholl
QUICK AND DIRTY: LIVE FROM TALLINNFairly early on, in a tender, conversational, post-coital scene, her boyfriend José (Lucas Ortiz) draws an additional face on the side of that of Camila (Jessica Barahona). Visually this suggests Cubism, in which a subject’s faces would be painted from different angles simultaneously, but the dialogue between the two swiftly moves on to the subject of a god with two faces possessing the ability to look into the past and the future.
