Perfect 10, 2019. Directed by Eva Riley. Starring Frankie Box, Alfie Deegan, Sharlene Whyte, Billy Mogford, William Ash and Nicola Wright. SYNOPSIS: An aspiring teen gymnast’s world is turned upside down with the arrival of the half-brother she never knew she had. Perfect 10 is the poignant charting of a new relationship between a brother […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Waiting for the Barbarians
Waiting for the Barbarians, 2019. Directed by Ciro Guerra. Starring Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson, Gana Bayarsaikhan, Greta Scacchi, David Dencik. SYNOPSIS: In a distant, unnamed colonial outpost in the Middle Eastern desert, a Magistrate begins to question his loyalty to the Empire after the arrival of state security officers with morally questionable methods. […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Monsoon
Monsoon, 2019. Directed by Hong Khaou. Starring Henry Golding and Parker Sawyers. SYNOPSIS: Kit, a British Vietnamese man, returns to Saigon for the first time in over 30 years, after fleeing during the Vietnam-American War. Hong Khaou’s follow-up to his 2014 debut Lilting is a similarly sober offering that, despite its scant 86-minute runtime, is in […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Rose Plays Julie
Rose Plays Julie, 2019. Directed by Joe Lawlor & Christine Molloy. Starring Ann Skelly, Orla Brady, Aidan Gillen, Catherine Walker, Sadie Soverall, Annabell Rickerby, Joanne Crawford and Alan Howley. SYNOPSIS: An adopted girl seeks out her birth mother, only to be told she has no desire to meet her. With her interest piqued however, she […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – System Crasher
System Crasher, 2019. Directed by Nora Fingscheidt. Starring Helena Zengel, Albrecht Schuch, and Gabriela Maria Schmeide. SYNOPSIS: On her wild quest for love, 9-year-old Benni’s untamed energy drives everyone around her to despair. The feature debut of writer-director Nora Fingscheidt dares to tackle a shockingly under-explored issue in cinema centered around troubled youths; uncontrollable anger, […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – The King
The King, 2019. Directed by David Michôd. Starring Timothée Chalamet, Joel Edgerton, Sean Harris, Robert Pattinson, Ben Mendelsohn, Dean-Charles Chapman, Tom Glynn-Carney, Lily-Rose Depp, Thomasin McKenzie, Andrew Havill, Edward Ashley and Tara Fitzgerald. SYNOPSIS: Hal, wayward prince and heir to the English throne, is crowned King Henry V after his tyrannical father dies. Now the […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Lighthouse
The Lighthouse, 2019. Directed by Robert Eggers. Starring Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, and Valeriia Karaman. SYNOPSIS: The hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. The Lighthouse is about as boldly entrancing a second feature as one could imagine from any filmmaker, let alone Robert […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Lucky Grandma
Lucky Grandma, 2019. Directed by Sasie Sealy. Starring Tsai Chin, Hsiao-Yuan Ha, Michael Tow, Yan Xi and Mason Yam. SYNOPSIS: When she steals a large amount of money from a dead criminal boss, a grandmother hires a gangland bodyguard to protect her from the crooks who come to reclaim the cash. The influence of the […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Waves
Waves, 2019. Directed by Trey Edward Shults Starring Kelvin Harrison Jr., Taylor Russell, Alexa Demie, Sterling K. Brown, Renée Elise Goldsberry, and Lucas Hedges SYNOPSIS: Chronicling the trials of life for an affluent African-American family, headed by a domineering father (Sterling K. Brown), the son (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) he both pushes and puts on a […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Monos
Monos, 2019. Directed by Alejandro Landes. Starring Sofia Buenaventura, Moises Arias, Julian Giraldo, Paul Cubides, Karen Quintero, Julianne Nicholson, Deiby Rueda, Sneider Castro, Laura Castrillón and Wilson Salazar. SYNOPSIS: A gang of child soldiers are left adrift in the Colombian jungle, far away from any adult authority to guide their violent antics. Sometimes, it’s nice […]
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