Movie reviews of Victor Fraga

Cristi Puiu's new creation is a highly conversational, cryptic and esoteric examination of a Romania crippled by corruption, Covid and micro-aggressions of all sorts. Review

This is a sardonic allegory of political doctrine gone unhinged, as well a tragic register of a society on the brink of social collapse. Review

Greek director Christos Nikou’s sophomore feature is fun and enjoyable to watch (if only you cover your eyes in the most graphic sequences). But it’s also highly formulaic and predictable, with a lukewarm ending. Review

A peculiar piece of filmmaking worthy of praise as well as an attentive viewing. Review

The problem with the Boy and Heron is that its is too multithreaded. The convoluted narrative is ostensibly dotted with Japanese folk, mythology and cultural references not recognisable to Western eyes such as mine. Review

Swedish director Isabella Eklöf’s sophomore feature is bursting with raw authenticity, all wrapped up in the cold Greenlandic weather and Scandinavian stoicism. Not a remarkably heart-wrenching experience, however a palpable and honest one. Review

The long-lost, seemingly crude and tasteless home movies of Charles Carson are in reality bursting with tenderness and poetry. Review

This is a quiet and tender movie that blends courtroom and family drama. Review

For maximum adrenaline, you should be trapped in a dark room without escape and without respite. The 91 minutes should run out fairly quickly, much like the dwindling oxygen in May and Drew’s tanks. Review

The Oceans Are the Real Continents is a visually enrapturing piece of slow cinema with a very loose narrative arc. Review

Three failed clowns get together in order to forcibly draw some laughter, joy and blood from those who stand on their path - clumsy Irish comedy. Review

Viennese men and women engage in a vertiginous battle for love and lust, in this charming and unusual French anthology. Review

Christian Petzold's new creation is an inventive and profound meditation on the deceitful machinations of the creative mind. Review

Drug dealer offers comfort, redemption and liberation to some of the most vulnerable people of Tehran - ultra-subversive, scream-out-loud Iranian movie. Review

Italian teen is caught in a fantasy world of murder, sex and cinema, in this Franco-Italian pithy and vibrant tribute to giallo. Review

Deeply poetic Swiss documentary about Jamaican trans woman excels in inventiveness. Review

Moroccan prepubescent teens fight for survival on the deserted streets of Spanish exclave Melilla, in this cold and distant Swiss-French documentary. Review

Two tormented young women bond through their afflictions and pains, in this unusually structured Portuguese drama. Review

Italian teen dreams of eloping to a distant land with a slightly older man, in this twisted queer coming-of-age drama. Review

Ukrainian man returns to his precarious countryside village in order to tend his sick mother, in this beautiful yet monotonous riff on departure. Review

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Dani Rosenberg’s third feature film makes a subtle yet unequivocal anti-war statement without slipping into didacticism and pamphleteering. Review

Raju Jude presents his unsightly, messy and completely bonkers new movie, a caustic satire of a Romania intoxicated by film wizardry. Review

This is a film that will make you smile, even gently shake your hips, however it will neither enrapture nor hit you. Review