Los Angeles – FilmFest Salon

Review: “Neon Demon” and hiatus

Nicolas Winding Refn’s Neon Demon follows a well-worn path to its bloody conclusion, relying on an audience’s tolerance for empty female characters in order to see them murder each other as a career move. In this case, they are gorgeous models seething with jealousy over Elle Fanning’s sudden dominance of the fashion scene in Los […]

Tribeca 2016: “The Loner”

By filmfestsalonMay 2, 2016Film Review Blogfilm festivals, gangster, Helena Mattson, Iran, Iraq, Julian Sands, Los Angeles, oscars, Reza Sixo, Robert de Niro, Safai, Tehrangeles, Tribeca

In The Loner, his first feature, director Daniel Grove follows the story of Behrouz, starting with his forced service as a child soldier – a “Basiji” – fighting for Iran in the war with Iraq. The story then advances to his life as an adult immigrant in the underworld of Los Angeles, specifically the Persian […]