29 March 2024. By Neptune GREEN BORDER **** (vo Polish, Russian, English, Arabic…) We first see the Syrian family – from the stately grandfather to his son’s family including wife, children and a baby – on a flight from Turkey to Belarus, where they have plans to go to relatives in Sweden. Fleeing from the […]

17 November 2023. By Neptune HOW TO HAVE SEX *** This film by first-time director Molly Manning Walker should have been called ‘How NOT to Have Sex’. It’s about three English teenage girlfriends who go off to a Greek party resort to literally “get laid”. They’re terribly excited and the place is full of rowdy […]

10 November 2023. By Neptune L’ABBÉ PIERRE – UNE VIE DE COMBATS (A Century of Devotion) ***1/2 (vo French) This man could be a modern-day St. Francis. Born to a wealthy bourgeois family in Lyon in 1912 as Henri Groués, he fought all his life for the poor and helpless people he saw around him. […]

27 October 2023. By Neptune Two completely opposite films this week – the first about basic decency and humanity, the other about the cold life of a contract killer. Take your pick – they are both from top directors. THE OLD OAK *** One always recognises a Ken Loach film. There are the ordinary people, […]

6 October 2023. By Neptune LE PROCÈS GOLDMAN  ****  (vo French)  This is one powerful showpiece on the judgement of a man who admits to various burglaries that he has committed but has now been given a retrial for the murder charges of two pharmacists, which he has all along vehemently denied.  Based on a […]

15 September 2023. Neptune will be back in full force next week. In the meantime see last weeks review below: By Neptune SUBTRACTION ***1/2 (vo Farsi) A woman sees her husband getting on a bus in Tehran, though he has told her he is away on a business trip. She follows him to an apartment […]

11 August 2023. By Neptune Dear Cinephiles, who may be hungry for good films in the summer drought of great cinema, as mentioned before, I am still on holiday. Therefore I will just shortly mention 2 films coming out this week which are definitely worth your while: GRAN TURISMO ***1/2 Not to mistake with Clint […]

7 July 2023. By Neptune LAND OF DREAMS ***1/2 By the renowned Iranian artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat, who lives in the U.S., this intriguing film is about peoples’ dreams. Neshat goes about it in her usual mysterious, artistic style, creating a young Iranian girl (Sheila Vand) who is working for the U.S. Census Bureau. […]

30 June 2023. By Neptune What can one say – it’s summertime and the living is easy… At least for us here in Geneva – the 7th ranked BEST city in the world to live in – out of hundreds. Check it out – from Condé Nast. So enjoy the lake, the surrounding mountains, the […]

23 June 2023. By Neptune SISU (De l’or et du sang) **** Tarantino could not have done better. And that’s the truth – though it might put some people off, as it’s obviously a violent film. But it’s simply brilliant in its genre, for the ferocity is not gratuitous, it is part and parcel of […]