Joseph Owen

PUBLISHED ARTICLES
  • Film festivals
    Petite Maman

    This gracefully rendered, fabular tale provides an exquisite distillation of...

  • Film festivals
    Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

    Three lovelorn episodes about “coincidence and...

  • Film festivals
    La Mif

    This excellent, if dramatically overburdened realist drama has the quality of...

  • Film festivals
    Language Lessons

    This sincerely felt, fundamentally misguided film amounts to a lockdown...

  • Movie
    Next Door

    Daniel Brühl supposedly sends himself up in this sly and insinuating two-hander, which is part...

  • Film festivals
    Brotherhood

    Shot over five years in a docufictional style that fuses reality and...

  • Film festivals
    Gerda

    Gerda is a diverting, if frustrating, account of thwarted personal choice in modern...

  • Film festivals
    The Sacred Spirit (Espiritu Sagrado)

    This darkly comic work walks and, for the most part,...

  • Film festivals
    Medea

    The Greek myth of Medea ends in tragedy, and this bold, bullish adaptation from...

  • Film festivals
    Vortex

    Gaspar Noé, generally a director of provocations, has made an elegant and candid...