Nomadland, 2020.Co-written and directed by Chloé Zhao. Starring Frances McDormand, David Strathairn, Linda May, Charlene Swankie, and Bob Wells.SYNOPSIS:Follows a woman in her sixties who, after losing everything in the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.Chloé Zhao’s third feature comfortably catapults her into the A-list of […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Striding Into the Wind
Striding Into the Wind, 2020.Co-written and directed by Shujun Wei. Starring Zhou You, Zheng Yingchen, and Wang Xiaomu.SYNOPSIS:Kun seems to be messing up pretty much everything: his senior year at film school, the job on his friend’s graduation film, and the relationship with his girlfriend. But Kun just acquired the cheapest second-hand car he could find: […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Zanka Contact
Zanka Contact, 2020.Written and directed by Ismaël El Iraki. Starring Ahmed Hammoud, Khansa Batma, and Saïd Bey.SYNOPSIS:In hellish Casablanca, a car-crash sets ablaze a burning, passionate love story between has-been rocker Larsen and the streetwise amazon Rajae.Anyone who’s seen more than a few-dozen films in their life will find plenty familiar about writer-director Ismael El Iraki’s […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Limbo
Limbo, 2020.Written and directed by Ben Sharrock. Starring Amir El-Masry, Vikash Bhai, and Sidse Babett Knudsen.SYNOPSIS:Omar is a promising young musician. Separated from his Syrian family, he is stuck on a remote Scottish island awaiting the fate of his asylum request.There’s an understandable seriousness and sobriety to most movies chronicling the asylum seeker experience, and so […]
Movie Review – Undine (2020)
Undine, 2020.Written and directed by Christian Petzold.Starring Paula Beer, Franz Rogowski, Jacob Matschenz, Maryam Zaree, Anne Ratte-Polle, Julia Franz Richter, Rafael Stachowiak, José Barros and Gloria Endres de Oliveira.SYNOPSIS:Undine works as a historian lecturing on Berlin’s urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. Undine has […]
Movie Review – The Intruder (2020)
The Intruder, 2020.Directed by Natalia Meta. Starring Erica Rivas, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Daniel Hendler, Cecilia Roth, Mirta Busnelli and Agustín Rittano.SYNOPSIS:A dubbing artist and singer is plagued by troubling noises and an unravelling mental state in the wake of trauma.There’s an interesting little sub-genre of horror movies and dark thrillers set in the world of […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Another Round
Another Round, 2020Directed by Thomas Vinterberg. Starring Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Lars Ranthe and Magnus Millang.SYNOPSIS: Four friends, all high school teachers, test a theory that they will improve their lives by maintaining a constant level of alcohol in their blood.‘It’s not just a film about drinking. Our ambition was to make a film […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Notturno
Notturno, 2020.Written and directed by Gianfranco Rosi.SYNOPSIS:Gianfranco Rosi’s new documentary is an immersive portrait of those trying to survive in the war-torn Middle East.Gianfranco Rosi’s (Fire at Sea) new documentary affirms both the strengths and weaknesses of his quasi-observational filmmaking style, delivering a deeply-felt yet flawed collage of life lived on the borders of Iraq, Kurdistan, […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Salt In Our Waters
The Salt In Our Waters, 2020.Directed by Rezwan Shahriar Sumit. Starring Titas Zia, Tasnova Tamanna, Fazlur Rahman Babu and Ashok Bepari.SYNOPSIS:When a sculptor visits a remote fishing village in Bangladesh, he finds himself beloved by some locals and treated as a dangerous invader by others.Multiple films at this year’s LFF focus on developing countries as […]
Movie Review – Wildfire (2020)
Wildfire, 2020.Directed by Cathy Brady. Starring Nika McGuigan, Nora-Jane Noone, Kate Dickie, Martin McCann and Olga Wehrly.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 mother’s past but […]
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