Brakes, 2016 Directed by Mercedes Grower Starring Julia Davis, Noel Fielding, Julian Barratt, Kerry Fox, Steve Oram, Paul McGann, Kate Hardie SYNOPSIS: A two-part semi-improvised film examining couples as they break-up and meet in and around London. Relationship break-ups can be messy. And so too can film-making, particularly if an improvisational freedom is allowed too […]
DVD Review – A Caribbean Dream (2017)
A Caribbean Dream, 2017. Directed by Shakirah Bourne. Starring Adrian Green, Susannah Harker, Sam Gillett, Jherad Alleyne, Marina Bye, Patrick Michael Foster, and Aden Gillett. SYNOPSIS: A reworking of the Shakespeare fairy tale “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, set in a modern day Barbados. A Caribbean Dream offers a fresh approach to telling the Shakespeare comedic fairy tale A Midsummer Night’s Dream. […]
Movie Review – Desolation (2017)
Desolation, 2017. Directed by David Moscow. Starring Dominik García-Lorido, Raymond J. Barry, and Brock Kelly. SYNOPSIS: A young woman is plunged into confusion after meeting and agreeing to stay with a Hollywood actor in his Los Angeles apartment. Offering up a disturbing look at the Hollywood industry and the trappings of fame, this psychological thriller […]
MyFrenchFilmFestival Review – Crash Test Aglaé (2017)
Crash Test Aglaé, 2017. Directed by Éric Gravel. Starring India Hair, Julie Depardieu, and Yolande Moreau. SYNOPSIS: A young worker learns that her factory is going to be relocated abroad, and surprises everyone by accepting to go to India in order to hold on to her job. Aglaé (India Hair) is a young woman dedicated to her […]
MyFrenchFilmFestival Review – Into the Forest (2016)
Into the Forest, 2016. Directed by Gilles Marchand. Starring Jérémie Elkaïm, Timothé Vom Dorp, and Théo Van de Voorde. SYNOPSIS: Two young boys whose parents are divorced travel to Sweden to spend their vacation with their father. When he suggests they spend a few days at a lakeside cabin in the middle of a forest, the boys are delighted. But […]
New films showcased completely online at 2018 MyFrenchFilmFestival
French and Francophone films are set to be shown online as part of MyFrenchFilmFestival. Available from 19 January to 19 February, the festival has been organised into six thematic sections with features and shorts offering a wide range of material. A mixture of new works playing alongside classic films such as Man Bites Dog and […]
Movie Review – A Woman’s Life (2016)
A Woman’s Life, 2016. Directed by Stéphane Brizé. Starring Judith Chelma, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Yolande Moreau, Swann Arlaud, and Nina Meurisse. SYNOPSIS: A young woman sets out on the path to adulthood and gradually experiences the harsh realities of a woman’s life in the mid 19th-century. Life is never as good or as bad as one thinks, wrote Guy de Maupassant […]
Movie Review – House of Salem (2016)
House of Salem, 2016. Written and Directed by James Crow. Starring Jessica Arterton, Leslie Mills, Liam Kelly, Jack Brett Anderson, Robert Lowe, Dean Maskell, Andrew Lee Potts, and Anna Nightingale. SYNOPSIS: A gang of kidnappers become a young boy’s protectors when they discover they have been duped into taking part in a dark satanic ritual. […]
Movie Review – Europe at Sea (2017)
Europe at Sea, 2017. Written and Directed by Annalisa Piras. SYNOPSIS: A documentary film following the head of EU Foreign and Security Policy Fedierica Mogherini as she puts together the new EU Global Strategy, an initiative focusing on universal problems and tackling wide-ranging concerns in an unprecedented year of political discord. Europe at Sea, an hour-long documentary film covering […]
Blu-ray Review – Zoology (2016)
Zoology, 2016. Written and Directed by Ivan I. Tverdovsky. Starring Natalya Pavlenkova, Dmitriy Groshev, Irina Chipizhenko, Masha Tokareva, and Zhanetta Demikhova. SYNOPSIS: A middle-aged zoo worker still living at home with her mother begins to see her life turn around when an unexpected physical transformation starts to take shape. Writer director Tverdovsky’s second film (following 2014’s Corrections Class) is […]
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