Nicole Vögele

Aug 23, 2024 | dmovies.org | Daniel Theophanous |Rian Johnson |Nicole Vögele

Frida (Naomi Ackie fresh off her Whitney Houston incarnation) and her flatmate’s Jess (indie fave Alia Shawkat) are young creatives in the big city. They find themselves waitressing at an upscale event hosted by tech billionaire Slater King (Channing Tatum, the husband of filmmker Zoe Kravitz). The event is extremely stylised, like a photoshoot, or a scene from a sci-fi movie. The ambient lighting has a certain otherworldliness.

Jun 11, 2024 | dmovies.org | Eoghan Lyng |Nicole Vögele

Little Cléo adores her nanny Gloria (Ilça Moreno Zego). They share a bond that goes beyond familial; it’s kindred. Concurrent to this growth comes Gloria’s desire to return to her biological children, and the two must share one last summer together. Based in part on director Maria Amachoukeli’s life experience, Ama Gloria follows these two over 84 minutes; showing the little nothings that transforms a moment into a memory.

Apr 9, 2024 | cineuropa.org | Nicole Vögele

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Feb 19, 2024 | dmovies.org | Daniel Theophanous |Rose Glass |Nicole Vögele

Rose Glass’s sophomore film is the follow-up to the equally exhilarating debut St. Maud (2019), a very unusual possession horror. This gritty lesbian thriller seems to confirm the queer leanings hinted at in St Maud, primarily of nurse Maud’s infatuation with her patient Amanda. On this occasion, lesbian sexuality takes centre stage but in a backdrop of rampant misogyny in the gun-toting US of the 1980s.

Nov 30, 2023 | dmovies.org | Victor Fraga |Nicole Vögele

This unusual Ukrainian movie takes place in March 1996. That’s just a few years after the nation’s independence from the USSR, and just before the last death penalties were carried out (as a consequence of the young country joining the Council of Europe). It is a period of transition. The past looks bleak. The future does not look particularly bright, either. Matters are often solved with close-range bullets, and justice is a concept as elusive as a flying unicorns.