Siberia, 2020. Co-written and directed by Abel Ferrara. Starring Willem Dafoe, Dounia Sichov, and Simon McBurney. SYNOPSIS: A barman in Siberia heads to a nearby cave where he explores his dreams and memories. Abel Ferrara’s sixth collaboration with Willem Dafoe is by a measure their most challenging – if perhaps not their most successful – […]
Movie Review – Herself (2020)
Herself, 2020 Directed by Phyllida Lloyd. Starring Clare Dunne, Harriet Walter, Conleth Hill, Molly McCann, Ruby Rose O’Hara, Ian Lloyd Anderson, Cathy Belton and Sarah Kinlen. SYNOPSIS: This is the story of young mother Sandra who escapes her abusive husband and fights back against a broken housing system. She sets out to build her own […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Intruder
The Intruder, 2020. Written and directed by Natalia Meta. Starring Érica Rivas, Nahuel Perez Biscayart, and Daniel Hendler. SYNOPSIS: The story of Inés, a young woman who after a traumatic episode during a trip with her partner begins to confuse herself between the real and the imaginary. Sound is a wholly undervalued aspect of filmmaking, and […]
Movie Review – Time (2020)
Time, 2020. Directed by Garrett Bradley. SYNOPSIS: A mother of six fights for the release of her husband, who is serving a 60-year prison sentence. 13th, Ava DuVernay’s Oscar-nominated, Emmy Award-winning documentary from 2016, begins with an alarming statistic: One out of four African-American males will serve prison time at one point or another in […]
Movie Review – Farewell Amor (2020)
Farewell Amor, 2020. Directed by Ekwa Msangi. Starring Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Zainab Jah, Jayme Lawson, Nana Mensah, Marcus Scribner and Joie Lee. SYNOPSIS: Seventeen years after he moved from Angola to New York City, a man is joined by his wife and daughter, only to discover that all three of them have changed dramatically […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Undine
Undine, 2020. Written and directed by Christian Petzold. Starring Paula Beer, Franz Rogowski, and Maryam Zaree. SYNOPSIS: Undine works as an historian lecturing on Berlin’s urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. Undine has to kill the man who betrays her and return to the water. […]
Movie Review – Shirley (2020)
Shirley, 2020. Directed by Josephine Decker.Starring Elisabeth Moss, Odessa Young, Michael Stuhlbarg, Logan Lerman, Victoria Pedretti, Robert Wuhl, Paul O’Brien, Orlagh Cassidy, Allen McCullough, Bisserat Tseggai and Edward O’Blenis. SYNOPSIS: A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple. A charged dynamic propels Shirley, […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Wildfire
Wildfire, 2020. Written and directed by Cathy Brady. Starring Nora Jane Noone, Nika McGuigan, Kate Dickie, and Martin McCann. SYNOPSIS: The story of two sisters who grew up on the fractious Irish border. When one of them, who has been missing, finally returns home, the intense bond with her sister is re-ignited. Together they unearth their […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – I Am Samuel
I Am Samuel, 2020. Directed by Pete Murimi. SYNOPSIS: A gay couple in Kenya deal with the fact their relationship is illegal, as well as their disapproving families. “This is Alex. I am Sammy. Alex is the love of my life.” So opens Kenyan documentary I Am Samuel, without a “can I make it any […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Genus Pan
Genus Pan, 2020. Written and directed by Lav Diaz. Starring Nanding Josef, Bart Guingona, and Don Melvin Boongaling. SYNOPSIS: A look at how much human beings are like animals. Lav Diaz’s (Norte, the End of History) new 157-minute film will likely seem like a positively restrained effort to his followers, given that it isn’t uncommon for […]
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