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2022 BFI London Film Festival Review – Decision to Leave

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Decision to Leave, 2022. Directed by Park Chan-wook Starring Park Hae-il, Tang Wei, Go Kyung-Pyo, Jung Yi-seo, Jeong Min Park, Seo Hyun-woo, Teo Yoo, and Lee Jung-hyunSYNOPSIS:From a mountain peak in South Korea, a man plummets to his death. Did he jump, or was he pushed? When detective Hae-joon arrives on the scene, he begins to […]

2022 BFI London Film Festival Review – Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande

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Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande, 2022.Directed by Tim MacKenzie-Smith.SYNOPSIS:They are the unsung heroes whose message of peace, love and funk sailed beyond Britain’s shores and helped shape music for five decades. Long after they stopped playing, the music played on, so they returned to play some more.Cymande were a British Funk group who […]

2022 BFI London Film Festival Review – Living

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Living, 2022.Directed by Oliver Hermanus. Starring Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, Tom Burke, and Alex Sharp.SYNOPSIS:An English-language adaptation of the script of “Ikiru” (1952), set in London in the 1950s.Akira Kurosawa’s works have often lent themselves to Western reinterpretation, be it Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven, Yojimbo and A Fistful of Dollars, or The […]

2022 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Woman in the White Car

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The Woman in the White Car, 2022. Directed by Christine Ko. Starring Ryeowon Jung, Jung-eun Lee, and Jung-min Kim.SYNOPSIS: When a kind-hearted smalltown cop (Jung-eun Lee) is summoned by the local hospital to deal with Do-kyung (Ryeowon Jung), who has arrived carrying the limp body of her sister, believed to have been stabbed in a violent attack […]

2022 BFI London Film Festival Review – Causeway

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Causeway, 2022.Directed by Lila Neugebauer. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Brian Tyree Henry, Linda Emond, Jayne Houdyshell, Stephen McKinley Henderson and Frederick Weller.SYNOPSIS:A US soldier (Jennifer Lawrence) suffers a traumatic brain injury while fighting in Afghanistan and struggles to adjust to life back home. Jennifer Lawrence returns to the kind of small character-driven, sparsely populated drama she first […]

Movie Review – Faya Dayi (2021)

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Faya Dayi, 2021.Written and directed by Jessica Beshir.SYNOPSIS:A spiritual journey into the highlands of Harar, immersed in the rituals of khat, a leaf Sufi Muslims chewed for centuries for religious meditations – and Ethiopia’s most lucrative cash crop today.Jessica Beshir’s feature documentary debut certainly isn’t the liveliest sit to be sought out by inquisitive festival […]

Movie Review – All My Friends Hate Me (2021)

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All My Friends Hate Me, 2021.Directed by Andrew Gaynord. Starring Nia Roberts, Annes Elwy, Julian Lewis Jones, Sion Alun Davies, Steffan Cennydd, Rhodri Meilir, Charly Clive and Lisa Palfrey.SYNOPSIS:Reconnecting with his university friends after years working with refugees, a young man becomes increasingly sure that something is amiss with the group of people he once […]

Movie Review – Boiling Point (2021)

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Boiling Point, 2021.Directed by Philip Barantini. Starring Stephen Graham, Vinette Robinson, Alice Feetham, Jason Flemyng, Ray Panthaki, Lourdes Faberes, Lauryn Ajufo and Hannah Walters.SYNOPSIS:On one of the busiest nights of the year, a harried head chef and his team attempt to put together high-quality cuisine under immense pressure.Stephen Graham is one of the best actors […]

2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – Nitram

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Nitram, 2021.Directed by Justin Kurzel. Starring Caleb Landry Jones, Essie Davis, Anthony LaPaglia and Judy Davis.SYNOPSIS:A fictionalised take on the story of the Port Arthur shooting – the most notorious mass shooting in Australian history.The 1996 Port Arthur shooting is one of the most horrifying events in recent Australian history, and also among the deadliest […]

Movie Review – Munich: The Edge of War (2021)

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Munich: The Edge of War, 2021.Directed by Christian Schwochow. Starring George MacKay, Jessica Brown Findlay, Jeremy Irons, Jannis Niewöhner, Sandra Hüller, Martin Wuttke.SYNOPSIS:September 1938, following years of rising Facism in Europe, Hitler is intent on expanding Germany’s influence across Europe. In an effort to keep the peace, both sides strive to achieve a meeting between […]