Encounter, 2021. Directed by Michael Pearce. Starring Riz Ahmed, Octavia Spencer, Rory Cochrane, Janina Gavankar, Lucian-River Chauhan, and Aditya Geddada. SYNOPSIS: Two brothers embark on a journey with their father, who is trying to protect them from an alien threat. Michael Pearce burst onto the scene with his acclaimed 2017 debut Beast. His follow-up film, […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – La Mif
La Mif, 2021. Written and directed by Fred Baillif. Starring Claudia Grob, Amélie Tonsi, Anaïs Uldry, Amandine Golay, Kassia Da Costa, Joyce Ndayisenga, Charlie Areddy, and Sara Tulu. SYNOPSIS: A group of teenage girls have been placed in a residential care home with social workers. This forced “family” experience creates unexpected tensions and intimacies. An […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – Hinterland
Hinterland, 2021. Co-written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky. Starring Murathan Muslu and Liv Lisa Fries. SYNOPSIS: When an ex-prisoner of the Great War returns home and finds his comrades brutally murdered, he decides to bring the serial killer to justice. In 2007, Stefan Ruzowitzky’s World War II drama The Counterfeiters won the Best International Feature Oscar, […]
BFI London Film Festival 2021 Review – The Odd-Job Men
The Odd-Job Men, 2021. Co-written and directed by Neus Ballús. Starring Mohamed Mellali, Valero Escolar, and Pep Sarrà. SYNOPSIS: A peculiar team of three handymen has to face a series of eccentric clients. Their everyday job becomes a surrealist and exhilarating experience. The latest venture from Catalan filmmaker Neus Ballús (The Plague) probably won’t end […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Hand of God
The Hand of God, 2021. Directed by Paolo Sorrentino. Starring Filippo Scotti, Toni Servillo, Teresa Saponangelo, Marlon Joubert, Luisa Ranieri, Renato Carpentieri, Massimiliano Gallo, Betty Pedrazzi, Biagio Manna and Ciro Capano. SYNOPSIS: This story of love, loss and family feuds is set in Naples with Fabietto (Filippo Scotti) at the epicentre. His father (Toni Servillo) […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – Spencer
Spencer, 2021. Directed by Pablo Larrain. Starring Kristen Stewart, Timothy Spall, Jack Nielen, Freddie Spry, Jack Farthing, Sean Harris, Stella Gonet, Amy Manson and Sally Hawkins. SYNOPSIS: Diana, Princess of Wales (Kristen Stewart) is spending three days at Sandringham Palace with her husband and family, as tradition dictates. This is a snapshot of life within […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – The French Dispatch
The French Dispatch, 2021. Directed by Wes Anderson. Starring Bill Murray, Timothée Chalamet, Tilda Swinton, Benicio del Toro, Owen Wilson, Frances McDormand, Adrien Brody, Léa Seydoux, Jeffrey Wright, Willem Dafoe, Saoirse Ronan, Edward Norton and Lyna Khoudri. SYNOPSIS: A series of stories taken from the pages of an eclectic newspaper, tracing student protests, prison art […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – 7 Days
7 Days, 2021. Directed by Roshan Sethi. Starring Geraldine Viswanathan, Karan Soni, Gita Reddy, Zenobia Shroff and Mark Duplass. SYNOPSIS: After being set up by their parents, a man and a woman on a date are forced to isolate together when the COVID-19 pandemic strikes. We’re going to see a lot of films like 7 […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – Azor
Azor, 2021. Directed by Andreas Fontana. Starring Fabrizio Rongione, Stéphanie Cléau, Juan Pablo Geretto and Elli Medeiros. SYNOPSIS: A Swiss banker takes over accounts in Argentina from his colleague in the 1980s, finding himself forced to navigate the complex, febrile politics of a military junta. Dark, murky intrigue is the order of the day when […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – Humidity Alert
Humidity Alert, 2021. Directed by Bong Soo Ko. Starring Baek Seung-Hwan, Lee Hee-Jun and Ko Ju-Hwan. SYNOPSIS: A special Q&A screening of a new film causes chaos for a cinema trying to deal with COVID-19 restrictions. We all know that cinemas have faced a tough time during the COVID-19 pandemic. Initially forced to close as […]
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