Tag: Festival Coverage

“Sanctuary | TAKE ONE | Reviews Watch Online” BDSM power relations dominate the screen in Zachary Wigon’s SANCTUARY, a taut sexy chamber piece showcasing an incredible performance from Margaret Qualley. It’s a well-considered film that draws the audience into the tangled and shifting power dynamics of sub-dom kink and keeps the audience guessing until its…

“Polite Society | TAKE ONE Watch Online” Nida Manzoor’s POLITE SOCIETY closed Glasgow Film Festival 2023 on a high as one of the festival’s strongest and most creative films. This modern Jane Austen story blends CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON with SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD and just a dash of GET OUT. Furthermore, it does…

“The Artifice Girl | TAKE ONE Watch Online” Low-budget, high-concept sci-fi does not get much better than THE ARTIFICE GIRL. Using a photorealistic AI avatar of a young girl, a man ensnares online predators and hands them over to the authorities. Across multiple acts, the film plays out like a fly on the wall, as…

“Great Yarmouth | TAKE ONE Watch Online” The human and natural worlds are uneasy bedfellows in Marco Martins’ GREAT YARMOUTH, a gritty testament to migrant workers in rural England. Months before Brexit, in late 2019, Great Yarmouth is a seaside town just past its prime – a town primarily for English holidaymakers, especially young families…

“How to Blow Up a Pipeline | TAKE ONE Watch Online” In his non-fiction book How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Andreas Malm writes “Damage and destroy new CO2-emitting devices. […] Let the capitalists investing in the fire know that their properties will be trashed.” Director Daniel Goldhaber draws on this same righteous fury in…

“Therapy Dogs | TAKE ONE Watch Online” Ethan Eng’s debut feature THERAPY DOGS is an astonishingly inventive blend of documentary and drama exploring the high school experience. Dazzling editing and an innovative blend of styles and tones make up this authentically Gen Z film that highlights the inventiveness of the next generation of filmmakers. “You…

“God’s Creatures | TAKE ONE Watch Online” The dynamics within many families can be somewhat unorthodox. Beyond the four walls of a cosy home life which many strive to portray, there is an unhealthily high tolerance level for appalling behaviour from those we nurture and love. Too much pride perhaps, driven by one’s insecurities and…

“Adopting Audrey | TAKE ONE Watch Online” ADOPTING AUDREY starts with a title card saying that “A surprising amount of what follows is true.” What follows is a slight but nonetheless incisive examination of modern generational divides and the difficulties of communication across the chasm of very different life experiences. ADOPTING AUDREY has its European…

“Past Lives | TAKE ONE Watch Online” During Celine Song’s exquisite and delicate PAST LIVES – a deeply human film about the pain of missed chances and the hard truths – they introduce the Korean phrase “In-Yun”. The concept of “In-Yun” speaks about fate and predestination. It says that the lives you lived previously, and…

“Girl | TAKE ONE | Sundance 2023 Watch Online” Following an immigrant mother and daughter in Glasgow, Adura Onashile’s GIRL is a gentle and sometimes hypnotic view of a life laced with the after-effects of trauma. Although the film shows how it affects those around you, Onashile’s feature debut achieves this with its interest in…