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The end of March is upon us, and the last Friday of the month gifts us with a trio of cinematic treats opening at the IFI. That includes Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1974 classic Ali: Fear Eats the Soul – a tale of love and racism as a woman falls for a much younger man. Cristian Mungiu returns after the triumph of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days with a new drama in Graduation and Korean filmmaker Kim Jee-Woon (A Tale of Two Sisters, I Saw the Devil) delivers the goods with period thriller The Age of Shadows.
Read a selection of reviews below and come along to the IFI to make up your own mind!
The Age of Shadows
“The irresistible pull of a spy thriller, the heightened stylishness of a 1920s setting, and terrific technical specs make “The Age of Shadows” an unabashed delight.” Variety
“Kim Jee-woon has found in this era and this milieu the perfect inspiration for a blisteringly entertaining and exquisite genre exercise” The Playlist – 4/5
“The movie’s visual panache and fog-of-war ambiguity are as universal as the desire to detonate TNT under your enemy’s headquarters.” Washington Post – 4/5
Graduation
“A rich film that repays serious pondering” The Irish Times – 4/5
“It is a film of enormous power and moral seriousness.” The Guardian – 5/5
“It’s not a despairing movie – Mungiu even suggests that a new generation might put things right – but it’s a brutally honest one.” Timeout London – 5/5
“This impeccably played saga deservedly earned Mungiu a share of the Best Director prize at Cannes.” Empire – 4/5
“As a vision of contemporary Romania’s grass-roots corruption, what Mungiu offers is baleful and believable because it’s not totally closed to redemptive gestures” Telegraph – 4/5
Ali Fear Eats the Soul
“Timely and heartbreaking, some 43 years after its debut.” The Irish Times – 5/5
“It is a triumph of intersectionality – as no one used to say in 1974 – and a triumph of love” The Guardian – 5/5
“One of the most beautiful films ever made, plain and simple.” Time Out – 5/5
“Technically flawless, deceptively simple and avoiding excesses, it is about problems that are timely and timeless in implications.” Variety
ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT 13:20, 20:30
CONCLAVE 18:00, 20:40
FROM THE VAULTS: DISCO PIGS 18.30
HOUSEWIFE OF THE YEAR 12:50, 16:50
ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL 16:20, 18:40
RUMOURS 15:40, 20:50
SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE 14:40
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