REVIEW ‘The Name of the Son’: Gender Identity and LGBTQ Rights
This review was originally published by Sounds and Colours’s partner, Latin America Bureau, in October 2020. You can read the... Read Article
REVIEW ‘Los Lobos’: Brothers Fend For Themselves in a Mexican Equivalent to ‘The Florida Project’
Los Lobos (The Wolves, 2020, directed by Samuel Kishi) is the story of an undocumented Mexican family who’ve recently arrived... Read Article
REVIEW ‘Ella es Cristina’: A Funny and Moving Spotlight on Female Friendship
Gonzalo Maza’s Ella Es Cristina (2019, Chile), featured on the programme of Raindance Film Festival 2020, is an endearing romantic... Read Article
REVIEW ‘When You Listen’: Experimental Flamenco Musician El Niño de Elche Travels to Bolivia Without a Goal
When You Listen (original title Niños Somos Todos, directed by Sergi Cameron, 2019) follows experimental flamenco musician El Niño de... Read Article
REVIEW ‘A Common Crime’: Middle-Class Guilt on Display in an Unsettling Thriller
A Common Crime (Un crimen común, 2020, directed by Francisco Márquez) featured on the programme of the 64th BFI London... Read Article
REVIEW ‘The Intruder’: Horror, Joy and a Topnotch Cast
The Intruder (2020, directed by Natalia Meta, originally titled El Prófugo) is one of a handful of Latin American films... Read Article
REVIEW ‘Epicentro’: An Idiosyncratic Eulogy for Havana
A burnished man, 40’s, wall-eyed, unshaven, his hair slicked down by the salt spray. He clamps his teeth on a... Read Article
REVIEW The Garden Left Behind: a Moving Representation of the Life of a Trans Latina Woman in New York City
Towards the beginning of The Garden Left Behind (2019, dir. Flavio Alves), Tina, a young Mexican trans woman in New... Read Article
REVIEW The Personal and the Political: Essential Brazilian Documentaries by Petra Costa and Maria Augusta Ramos
Petra Costa’s dreamlike, semi-autobiographical films The Edge of Democracy, Elena and Undertow Eyes contain a mixture of highly personal themes... Read Article
REVIEW From Queen of Socialites to Outsider: ‘The Good Girls’ is the Flipside of Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Roma’
The screen remains blank during the opening voiceover of Las niñas bien (2018, dir. Alejandra Márquez), while the protagonist, Sofia... Read Article