Category: Review
Back Shelf Cinema: Marketa Lazarová (1967)
I personally could not have put our 1967 in Film series to bed many months ago without re-watching and constantly praising what amounts to the…
LFF Review: Another Round / Druk (Thomas Vinterberg)
Mads Mikkelsen and Thomas Vinterberg seem made for each other. Building from the dizzyingly visceral realism of his early masterpiece Festen (1998), Vinterberg has always…
Film Review: The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
Coming off his directorial debut Molly’s Game, Aaron Sorkin is back expanding his focus from a deeply personal character study to the capturing of a…
LFF Review: Relic (Natalie Erika James)
In 2018, at our very own Femme Filmmakers Festival, a spooky film of just 9 minutes captured chilling themes of aging isolation and childhood relics….
LFF Review: Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross)
It is often said that hanging out with drunk people is unbearable when you’re sober. Drunkenness is a different state of being: it permits things…
LFF Review: This Is My Desire [Eyimofe] (Arie Esiri, Chuko Esiri)
Arie and Chuko Esiri‘s first feature is a uniquely elegant one. It signals the start, I hope, of two brilliant careers. Indeed, the sheer artfulness…
LFF Review: Honeymood (Talya Lavie)
Sometimes there’s nothing like a guitar strumming to set the scene and envisage a sense of humour. Talya Lavie‘s Israeli film, Honeymood, has enough organic…
LFF Review: Herself (Phyllida Lloyd)
Herself is a tale of the highs and lows in the life of Dublin based mother Sandra, who is a domestic abuse victim who finds…
LFF Review: 180 Degree Rule (Farnoosh Samadi)
Farnoosh Samadi’s feature debut is a chilling, quietly brutal drama that examines the real-life tensions caused by patriarchal society. Set in and around Tehran, Iran’s…
LFF Review: The Disciple (Chaitanya Tamhane)
Indian filmmaker Chaitanya Tamhane‘s second feature to return to the London Film Festival, The Disciple, opens with a classical vocal chorus inter-cutting between two men…
LFF Review: The Painter and the Thief – A Strange But Touching Tribute to a Singular Friendship
Many great film titles dilute their characters into basic descriptors: Stalker, The Graduate, Bicycle Thieves, The Passenger. All these examples attempt to define human lives…
LFF Review: Mogul Mowgli (Bassam Tariq)
In Bassam Tariq‘s first fiction feature film, Mogul Mowgli, his central character comes alive during his rap battles with other like-minded, energised young men. In…
Film Review: Possessor (2020)
As the son of legendary director David Cronenberg, Brandon Cronenberg had big shoes to fill and after a smaller feature directorial debut, looks to have…
Film Review: Monsoon (2020)
Some motion picture experiences work so well as contemplative, moving stories, that in an instant you forget cravings you may have for the action blockbuster…
