African Apocalypse, 2020.Co-written and directed by Rob Lemkin. Starring Femi Nylander, Amina Weira, and Boubacar Assan Midal.SYNOPSIS:A young man’s epic journey across Africa in search of a colonial killer.Rob Lemkin’s (Enemies of the People) new documentary confronts Europe’s grim imperial history with anger, accessibility, and a most unexpected through-line.African Apocalypse opens with a quote from Joseph […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – New Order
New Order, 2020.Written and directed by Michel Franco. Starring Naian González Norvind, Diego Boneta, and Mónica del Carmen.SYNOPSIS:A high-society wedding is interrupted by the arrival of unwelcome guests.In a feat as impressive as it is maddening, Michel Franco’s (After Lucia, Chronic) new film – which scooped Venice’s Grand Jury Prize – just might be his most […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Nomadland
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 […]
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 – American Utopia
American Utopia, 2020.Directed by Spike Lee. Starring David Byrne, Jaqueline Acevedo, and Gustavo di Dalva.SYNOPSIS:Spike Lee documents the former Talking Heads frontman’s brilliant, timely 2019 Broadway show, based on his recent album and tour of the same name.On the face of things, Talking Heads frontman David Byrne and director Spike Lee are hardly the most natural […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – If It Were Love
If It Were Love, 2020.Written and directed by Patric Chiha. Starring Gisèle Vienne.SYNOPSIS:They are fifteen young dancers of various origins and horizons. They are touring “Crowd,” Gisèle Vienne’s dance piece on the ’90s rave scene. Following them from theatre to theatre, If It Were Love documents their work as well as their strange, intimate relationships.The intermingling […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Shadow Country
Shadow Country, 2020.Directed by Bohdan Sláma. Starring Magdaléna Borová, Stanislav Majer, and Csongor Kassai.SYNOPSIS:Chronicles the events of a village on the Czech-Austrian border from the 1930s to 1950s, where genocide occurred due to fallout between German citizens and Czechs who collaborated with the Nazi regime during the war.Intimate in style yet epic in scope, Bohdan […]
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