Fourteen-year-old Shabu is a good-natured, creative, and street-smart boy from the south of Rotterdam. When he wrecks his grandmother’s car on a joyride, his whole family is angry with him. He has a summer to make amends before his grandmother returns from a vacation in Suriname.
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A celebration of this world and the love and tenderness at the centre of Shabu’s coming-of-age, one foot in both the modern Netherlands and in the ancestral practices his family have retained through the generations.| Read in full: Shabu film review We Love Cinema
The overall effect is magical and euphoric, rather as if Jacques Demy had jazzed up La Haine.The Guardian
Makes for very pleasant summertime viewing.Little White Lies
It’s the use of sound, though, that elevates the film from a well-staged documentary to something altogether more immersive.Sight & Sound
In his fourth feature film, writer-director Louis Garrel explores with wit and tenderness the risk and worth of second chances
A mountain trek intertwines with a road-building project, granting incisive, if underpowered, insight into a much underseen world
With none of the saving graces of Tetris, Air, or Barbie, this ambition-free look at the Beanie Baby craze is pure mediocrity
Celine Deveaux's French-Portuguese debut can be too quirky for its own good, but a fantastically written lead character keeps it afloat
From classics to cult favourites, our team highlight some of the best one-off screenings and re-releases showing this week in the capital
From classics to cult favourites, our team highlight some of the best one-off screenings and re-releases showing this week in the capital
With the year at the halfway point, our writers choose their favourite films, from daring documentaries to box office bombs
From classics to cult favourites, our team highlight some of the best one-off screenings and re-releases showing this week in the capital
