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Little Trouble Girls review: Sensual queer yearning in Slovenia It’s a profoundly Catholic work.

I really love Slovenia's Oscar submission LITTLE TROUBLE GIRLS, an intense queer awakening made with uncommon precision.

My review via @ebertvoices.bsky.social.

05.12.2025 19:04 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Our Nicholas Bell reviewed 🇸🇮🇸🇮 LITTLE TROUBLE GIRLS at the Berlinale - "Djukić is profoundly interested in capturing the tormented process of women’s sexual experiences, shaped by the restrictions imposed upon them by society, religion, and each other." A Kino Lorber release.
bit.ly/4gGc7wz

04.12.2025 14:02 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Little Trouble Girls — Urška Djukić [Review] | In Review Online A new film review of Little Trouble Girls, directed by Urška Djukić & released by Kino Lorber, for film review site In Review Online.

New review for In Review Online: I quite liked Urška Djukić’s debut Little Trouble Girls, a discreet and subtle film about burgeoning desires and Catholic guilt.

inreviewonline.com/2025/12/04/l...

04.12.2025 22:03 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Week Ending 12/5/25 The international beat

My latest newsletter is out with thoughts on:

• Happy Holidays (lim)
• Jay Kelly (Netflix)
• Little Trouble Girls (lim)
• Man Finds Tape (lim/VOD)
• The Secret of NIMH (Prime/Tubi)
• Twister (VOD)

www.heyhaveyouseen.com/week-ending-...

#heyhaveyouseen

05.12.2025 15:21 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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You’ve Never Seen a James Bond Spy Movie Quite Like This “Reflection in a Dead Diamond” is the wildest thriller of the fall.

"Reflection in a Dead Diamond" is a one-of-a-kind kaleidoscopic James Bond-ian head trip.

05.12.2025 16:25 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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‘Reflection in a Dead Diamond’ Review: Shudder’s Outré French Adventure Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s wonderfully weird and referential movie follows an elegant retiree in the south of France who is compelled to return to his former life of espionage.

Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s wonderfully weird and referential movie, "Reflection in a Dead Diamond," follows an elegant retiree in the south of France who is compelled to return to his former life of espionage.

05.12.2025 15:01 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Tribeca 2025: REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND dazzles with striking visuals but doesn’t interrogate the genre it's pastiching — Moviejawn by Megan Robinson, Staff Writer Reflection in a Dead Diamond is easily the most stylish film of the year. It’s rare to see such an old-school swing today, especially one that has such a bold look ...

MJ's @hughjmungo.bsky.social says, "REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND is easily the most stylish film of the year."

#ReflectionInADeadDiamond is now streaming on @shudder.com

05.12.2025 15:11 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Reflection in a Dead Diamond Directors on James Bond, Satoshi Kon, and Crafting a Cinematic Orgasm In the opening of 1969’s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, George Lazenby, the replacement for Sean Connery’s immediately iconic James Bond, looks at the camera, smiles, and says, “This never happened ...

"We developed the movie that would go higher, higher, higher, higher, like an orgasm." Reflection in a Dead Diamond directors Bruno Forzani and Hélène Cattet talk with @brndnstrssng.bsky.social about crafting a hypnotic frenzy for the senses:

05.12.2025 15:54 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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ScreenRant Movie Review Roundup: Marty Supreme, Five Nights at Freddy's 2, The Secret Agent & More! We've got reviews of Timothée Chalamet's latest run at Best Actor, Five Night's at Freddy's 2, a handful of Christmas flicks, and more!

This week's review roundup for @screenrant.bsky.social is loaded! We've got Todd Gilchrist on Marty Supreme and Rosemead, Alex Harrison on Five Nights at Freddy's 2, Graeme Guttmann on The Secret Agent, myself on Reflection in a Dead Diamond and more!

Read them all: screenrant.com/screenrant-m...

05.12.2025 17:01 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
REVIEW: Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025) dir. Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani // BOSTON HASSLE

I loved REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND, Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s bonkers, almost cubist take on ‘60s Italian spy films. Review is up in @bostonhassle.bsky.social— watch it on @shudder.com! bostonhassle.com/review-refle...

05.12.2025 19:07 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Looking for a visual feast and a wild ride? Check out REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND, out today. My @hammertonail.bsky.social review is now up. #filmsky

05.12.2025 18:50 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you @cameronscheetz.bsky.social ♥️

05.12.2025 02:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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WATCH: Catholic school trip turns into a queer awakening—thanks to a pack of sweaty construction workers - buff.ly/iCQcPYP

04.12.2025 21:30 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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‘Little Trouble Girls’ Review: A Choral Coming-of-Age Urška Djukić’s graceful directorial debut follows the girls of a Catholic choir as they experience the changes and challenges of adolescence.

The Wall Street Journal:
A graceful Slovenian drama follows the girls of a Catholic choir as they experience the changes and challenges of adolescence. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

05.12.2025 01:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘Reflection in a Dead Diamond’ Review: Shudder’s Outré French Adventure Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s wonderfully weird and referential movie follows an elegant retiree in the south of France who is compelled to return to his former life of espionage.

The Wall Street Journal: Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s wonderfully weird and referential movie follows an elegant retiree in the south of France who is compelled to return to his former life of espionage. tiny.cc/7z0w001

05.12.2025 01:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In Review: ‘Merrily We Roll Along,’ ‘Reflection in a Dead Diamond’ This week's new releases include a Eurospy throwback and the preservation of an acclaimed Sondheim production.

Today at The Reveal: Reviews of MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG (by me) and REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND (by @scotttobias.bsky.social). (We did not catch FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S 2. Apologies. I assure you that we do still like movies):

04.12.2025 17:14 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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'Reflection in a Dead Diamond' Is the Aged James Bond Movie You've Been Waiting For An exquisite homage to 007 and spy films from our most ambitious filmmaking duo.

Reflection in a Dead Diamond isn't just the best Bond movie in ages, the best Diabolik adaptation in recent years, and the best Cattet & Forzani picture yet, but also straight up one of the best films of the year. Loved it and wrote about it this week.

04.12.2025 21:46 — 👍 17    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Little Trouble Girls: This Soulful Teen Drama Is a Feast for the Senses Slovenian filmmaker Urška Djukic speaks with AnOther about her luminous tale of sexual awakenings on a Catholic choir-group retreat

Filmmaker Urška Djukic speaks with AnOther Magazine about LITTLE TROUBLE GIRLS, a luminous tale of sexual awakenings on a Catholic choir-group retreat www.anothermag.com/design-livin...

04.12.2025 01:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Maria de Medeiros Catapulted to Cult Stardom in ‘Pulp Fiction’ — but Her Heart Was in Europe With de Medeiros' newest film 'Reflection in a Dead Diamond' premiering in Berlin, THR catches up with the Portuguese actress on what she's been up to since 1994, the year Quentin Tarantino uncovered ...

With Maria de Medeiros' new film REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND releasing, THR caught up with the Portuguese actress on what she's been up to since 1994, the year Quentin Tarantino uncovered a star.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

04.12.2025 00:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

LET'S GO LIZ LARSEN!!! ❤️

03.12.2025 22:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

HUGE CONGRATS TO THE BALTIMORONS! ❤️

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03.12.2025 22:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

All future spy movies should legally be forced to include as many people peeling off latex masks as Reflection in a Dead Diamond

03.12.2025 02:51 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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‘Reflection in a Dead Diamond’ Exclusive Clip Traps Retired Spy in Dangerous Illusion A spy villain takes their disguises to violent, trippy new heights in our exclusive new clip from 1960s Eurospy throwback Reflection in a Dead Diamond. Watch the clip below ahead of the film’s release...

A spy villain takes their disguises to violent, trippy new heights in our exclusive new clip from 1960s Eurospy throwback REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND, out this Friday on Shudder:

03.12.2025 16:04 — 👍 21    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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i do not need a bond movie starring a cardboard cutout of a man when cattet & forzani already gave us the best bond film since casino royale this year.

reflection in a dead diamond comes out on shudder on friday!

03.12.2025 16:53 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
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Exclusive Interview: Filmmakers Bruno Forzani and Hélène Cattet reflect on their hyperstylized “REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND” - Rue Morgue The duo behind AMER and THE STRANGE COLOUR OF YOUR BODY'S TEARS now bring their abstract, violent style to a Eurospy homage.

Exclusive Interview: Filmmakers BRUNO FORZANI and HÉLÈNE CATTETreflect on their hyperstylized “REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND” https://ow.ly/SgWK50XBnh0

03.12.2025 17:01 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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"Heady with intertwined sensual and religious symbolism; the first rate score and sound design teases out the tangled, conflicting impulses towards Catholic devotion and erotic abandon."

LITTLE TROUBLE GIRLS opens Friday + director Q&As! ifccenter.com/films/little...

03.12.2025 16:27 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
A still from the film Little Trouble Girls. Two white 16-year-old girls are staring, one of them partially hidden behind the other.

A still from the film Little Trouble Girls. Two white 16-year-old girls are staring, one of them partially hidden behind the other.

"Most communication between people happens in the vibration and in the body language. So we don't need to say anything. We can understand" - Urška Djukić on Slovenian Oscar submission Little Trouble Girls www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2025... #filmsky 🎬

02.12.2025 19:50 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Reflection in a Dead Diamond is possibly my favorite Forzani-Cattet film; at the very least, it's tied with The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears. Thanks to @grandillusioncinema.org, it plays @siffnews.bsky.social Dec 3 and comes to @shudder.com Dec 5. Guaranteed: practical effects for *days.*

02.12.2025 17:11 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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"This gorgeously shot film about simmering sexual tensions (brings) shades of early Céline Sciamma."
– Alex Denney, Another Magazine

LITTLE TROUBLE GIRLS opens Friday! Q&As Fri/Sat with director Urška Djukić. ifccenter.com/films/little...

02.12.2025 15:04 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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