Category Archives: Reviews (Feature Films)

Selected reviews of films that played the 2008 Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF).

City of Life

City of Life Ali F. Mostafa | UAE | 2009 97 min City of Life will change the way you think about Emirati filmmaking — it is co-written and directed by Ali F. Mostafa who, with this film, vigorously attempts … Continue reading

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Che

Che Steven Soderberg | USA | 2008 262 min The Cuban revolutionary leader Ernesto “Che” Guevara was many things to many people. To some (especially those from third world countries) he was an effective and fierce opponent of America’s hypocritical … Continue reading

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Blindness

Imagine if people start going blind at random. No reason, no warning. It won’t happen to everyone at the same time, but in slow intervals, and everyday this number of people will increase. That is the world in Blindness. Fearing that the disease might be contagious, the government locks the infected in a hospital ward, to control the outbreak. Things are going fine in the beginning. There is food, the ward is clean, there is space, and people are waiting patiently to be cured. But then, more and more blind people are sent in, the ward becomes overcrowded, food supply has to be rationed, and then things go very wrong. Continue reading

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Genova

Genova Michael Winterbottom | UK | 2008 94 min The young girl, Mary, is almost certainly the stupidest child character of 2008. Children in movies, like in real life, are always a bit retarded and act like morons, but Mary’s … Continue reading

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