Happy as Lazzaro, 2018.Directed by Alice Rohrwacher. Starring Adriano Tardiolo, Sergi Lopez and Alba Rohrwacher.SYNOPSIS:The tale of a meeting between Lazzaro, a young peasant so good that he is often mistaken for simple-minded, and Tancredi, a young nobleman cursed by his imagination. Life in their isolated pastoral village Inviolata is dominated by the terrible Marchesa Alfonsina […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Bisbee ’17
Bisbee ’17, 2018.Directed by Robert Greene.SYNOPSIS:An old mining town on the Arizona-Mexico border finally reckons with its darkest day: the deportation of 1200 immigrant miners exactly 100 years ago. Locals collaborate to stage recreations of their controversial past.Robert Greene (Kate Plays Christine) serves up a powerful jolt to the conscience with this fascinatingly disturbing – and […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, 2018.Directed by Terry Gilliam. Starring Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce, Stellan Skarsgård, Olga Kurylenko, and Joana Ribeiro.SYNOPSIS:Toby, a disillusioned advertising executive, becomes pulled into a world of time jumping fantasy when a Spanish cobbler believes him to be Sancho Panza. He gradually becomes unable to tell dreams from reality.Terry Gilliam’s legendary, […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, 2018.Directed by Morgan Neville. Featuring Joanne Rogers, François Clemmons, Yo-Yo Ma, and Joe Negri.SYNOPSIS:An exploration of the life, lessons, and legacy of iconic children’s television host, Fred Rogers.Though legendary children’s TV personality Fred Rogers may not be especially well-known to British audiences, his cultural reach is so pervasive it’s hard […]
Movie Review – Utøya – July 22 (2018)
Utøya – July 22, 2018.Directed by Erik Poppe. Starring Andrea Berntzen.SYNOPSIS:A teenage girl struggles to survive and to find her younger sister during the July 2011 terrorist mass murder at a political summer camp on the Norwegian island of Utøya.Though it premieres at the LFF mere days after Paul Greengrass’ own dramatisation of the 2011 Norway […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Dogman
Dogman, 2018.Directed by Matteo Garrone. Starring Marcello Fonte and Edoardo Pesce.SYNOPSIS:Marcello, a small and gentle dog groomer, finds himself involved in a dangerous relationship of subjugation with Simone, a former violent boxer who terrorises the entire neighbourhood. In an effort to reaffirm his dignity, Marcello will submit to an unexpected act of vengeance.The latest tragicomedy from writer-director […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Wildlife
Wildlife, 2018.Directed by Paul Dano. Starring Carey Mulligan, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ed Oxenbould and Bill Camp.SYNOPSIS:A boy witnesses his parents’ marriage falling apart after his mother finds another man.Paul Dano makes a staggering debut with this emotionally charged adaptation of Richard Ford’s 1990 novel, a meticulously assembled drama about family, masculinity and female agency in 1960s America topped […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Nancy
Nancy, 2018.Directed by Christina Choe. Starring Andrea Riseborough, J. Smith-Cameron, Ann Dowd, John Leguizamo, and Steve Buscemi.SYNOPSIS:Nancy becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child. When she meets a couple whose daughter went missing thirty years ago, reasonable doubts give way to wilful belief.Andrea Riseborough adds yet another towering performance to her impressive repertoire with […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Ash Is Purest White
Ash Is Purest White, 2018.Directed by Jia Zhangke. Starring Zhao Tao and Liao Fan.SYNOPSIS:A story of violent love within a time frame spanning from 2001 to 2017.The latest epic drama from revered Chinese director Jia Zhangke (A Touch of Sin, Mountains May Depart) feels less-assured than his prior efforts while also raking over similar themes and ideas to […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Lizzie
Lizzie, 2018.Directed by Craig William Macneill. Starring Chloë Sevigny, Kristen Stewart, Jay Huguley, Jamey Sheridan, Fiona Shaw, Kim Dickens, Denis O’Hare, and Jeff Perry.SYNOPSIS:A psychological thriller based on the infamous 1892 murders of the Borden family.Craig William Macneill’s (The Boy) Lizzie Borden biopic couldn’t be further from prior campy adaptations of the iconic ax-murderer’s life (especially […]
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