Movie reviews of Victor Fraga

French thriller about young femme fatale divided between a young criminal lover and a older wealthy husband is pretentious and unnecessary. Review

The tone is sombre and realistic. Violence is neither fetishised nor sanitised. Review

The Human Voice obviously has limited commercial ambitions allowing the filmmaker more artistic freedoms. Review

Strangers become trapped in a strange web of love and deception, in this entertaining French drama set between two continents. Review

Sinister suburban comedy from Italy is a hybrid amalgam of hapless children and maladroit parents. Review

The king of slow cinema is back after a seven-year hiatus with a rare and valuable gem, with a duration of more than two hours. Review

Spectacular Iranian movie divided into four short stories reflects about the complacence, the complicity and the morality of killing. Review

This is a very conventional historical drama. The topic choice is fascinating, although it’s unclear how much is true and how much is fictionalised. Review

Franz Biberkopf becomes an African refugee struggling to settle into modern-day Germany, in this astounding adaptation of Alfred Döblin's classic. Review

Canteen worker of a secret Soviet research institute wrestles (both literally and metaphorically) with her coworkers, in this highly claustrophobic, violent and sexually graphic Russian flick... Review

The Roads Not Taken fails to achieve its full potential, and to move viewers more profoundly. Not an unpleasant ride, but Potter should have taken us all the way down the road. Review

Hittman has created yet another auspicious drama about a despondent young person dealing with the consequences of sex. Review

The entire movie is dotted with comedic and farcical elements, as if mocking the conveniently malleable nature of “the truth”. Review

The extensive conversations are simple and mundane on the surface, yet dotted with subtle humour and peculiar pearls of wisdom. Review

Abel Ferrara's latest drama is a bizarre patchwork of geographic and psychological references, starring Willem Dafoe. Review

My Little Sister is a crude and merciless portrait of a terminal disease. Be prepared for a rough ride, devoid of lyricism and romanticising. Review

Josephine Decker’s fourth feature fiction is crafted like a horror movie, with dark imagery, unusual angles and action confined mostly to one creepy Gothic mansion. It’s mostly effective, yet rather conventional for a director more used to formally complex and multilayered movies. Review

The film provides some interesting insight into the African cultures of Brazil. But it fails to go into too much depth. Review

Dotted with awkward surprises and very strange symbolisms, Undine firmly establishes the Christian Petzold’s reputation as one of Germany’s most innovative auteurs. Review

In aesthetic and formal terms, this is a very unusual and audacious film. The problem is that it simply fails to captivate and moo-ve! Review

Urgent in its simplicity, Philippe Garrel's filmmaking continues to impress after nearly six decades. Review

Biopic of Antonio Ligabue, one of the greatest Naive artists of the 20th century, is aesthetically accomplished yet a little soporific. Review

Wacky Argentinian comedy-horror deep-dives into the twisted psychology of a female dubber and singer. Review

Corporate greed poisons a small community of Japan, in this real-life drama about environmental pollution and international solidarity, starring Johnny Depp. Review