Filmrecensies van Victor Fraga

The latest creation by Japan's most versatile filmmmaker is a highly conventional and mostly confusing "spy" drama originally conceived for television. Recensie

It’s colourful and fun to watch. It just won’t stay with you for very long. Recensie

Highly artistic and contemplative documentary registers the plight of people in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Kurdistan. Recensie

Polish movie about Ukrainian masseur with supernatural powers is hardly decipherable and yet distinctively bewitching. Recensie

Andrei Konchalovsky works well as personal drama, focused on one family. It does not bode well as a historical register. Recensie

Documentary about the political imprisonment of Caetano Veloso during the Brazilian military dictatorship has priceless moments for fans yet little appeal for those not familiar with the iconic singer. Recensie

Iranian film about a school for homeless children has its heart at the right spot and its script all over the place, stringing together a myriad of cumbersome premises. Recensie

Period Lesbian drama set in the US and filmed in Transylvania is exuberant in its photography, supported by a simple yet powerful script. Recensie

Charming and sensitive Palestinian movie finds romance at old age in a very conservative and impoverished society. Recensie

Biopic of Karl Marx's youngest daughter is so deeply marred by a contrived script, wooden performances and awkward antics that it's barely watchable. Recensie

I Am Greta is an observational, fly-on-the-wall type of documentary. It never challenges its subject. Recensie

The real-life story of the picaresque British hero who stole a painting from the National Gallery for charitable purposes is doused in saccharine and yet enjoyable to watch. Recensie

French thriller about young femme fatale divided between a young criminal lover and a older wealthy husband is pretentious and unnecessary. Recensie

The tone is sombre and realistic. Violence is neither fetishised nor sanitised. Recensie

The Human Voice obviously has limited commercial ambitions allowing the filmmaker more artistic freedoms. Recensie

Strangers become trapped in a strange web of love and deception, in this entertaining French drama set between two continents. Recensie

Sinister suburban comedy from Italy is a hybrid amalgam of hapless children and maladroit parents. Recensie

The king of slow cinema is back after a seven-year hiatus with a rare and valuable gem, with a duration of more than two hours. Recensie

Spectacular Iranian movie divided into four short stories reflects about the complacence, the complicity and the morality of killing. Recensie

This is a very conventional historical drama. The topic choice is fascinating, although it’s unclear how much is true and how much is fictionalised. Recensie

Franz Biberkopf becomes an African refugee struggling to settle into modern-day Germany, in this astounding adaptation of Alfred Döblin's classic. Recensie

Canteen worker of a secret Soviet research institute wrestles (both literally and metaphorically) with her coworkers, in this highly claustrophobic, violent and sexually graphic Russian flick... Recensie

The Roads Not Taken fails to achieve its full potential, and to move viewers more profoundly. Not an unpleasant ride, but Potter should have taken us all the way down the road. Recensie

Hittman has created yet another auspicious drama about a despondent young person dealing with the consequences of sex. Recensie