Pia Marais

Aug 13, 2024 | dmovies.org | Eoghan Lyng |Sara Fgaier |Laurynas Bareiša |Pia Marais

QUICK AND DIRTY: LIVE FROM LOCARNOVirgil Vernier’s film is structured like a post-modern short story from the 20th century. Cent Mille MIllards isn’t necessarily a work about narration, but ideas, focus and thematic undertones. The central character, if there is one, is Afine (Zakaria Bouti), an 18-year-old “whore” who is complimented by young and old for his sumptous body.

Aug 7, 2024 | cineuropa.org | Pia Marais

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Jul 22, 2024 | dmovies.org | Daniel Theophanous |Laurynas Bareiša |Pia Marais |Tato Kotetishvili

As mainstream films go, there’s always a propensity for narrational extremes, considering themselves as beacons of escapism from the doldrums of our ordinary life. But ordinary life can be is just as captivating with all its transient intricacies, felt keenly by and more adjacent to the lives of the audiences watching. The onus appears to lie in the hands of arthouse cinema, with movies such as Janet Planet, which inventively portrays the beauty and poignancy of the everyday.