film criticism by maryann johanson | celebrating 25 years: 1997–2022
My pick: Vincent Lambe’s controversial and profoundly harrowing “Detainment,” a dramatization of the real-life police interrogations of the 10-year-old boys who killed a toddler in England in 1993.
A brief rundown of some of the film- and TV-related winners…
Old fogies, move aside.
My pick: I suspect that this year’s winner will be “Garden Party,” a spectacular debut from new French animation studio Illogic that I am sure we will be seeing a lot more stunning work from.
This delicately realized portrait of an intellectual Tehran couple could easily be taking place in New York, London, or Tokyo. The empathy machine strikes again.
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It’s all a bit satirical. Or maybe not. Look, over there, Shakespeare in a superhero cape!
