A Common Crime, 2020. Co-written and directed by Francisco Márquez. Starring Elisa Carricajo, Mecha Martínez, and Eliot Otazo. SYNOPSIS: Cecilia is a sociology teacher. One night the son of her maid desperately knocks on the door of her house. She doesn’t open. The next day, his body shows up murdered by the police. Cecilia begins to […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Rose: A Love Story
Rose: A Love Story, 2020. Directed by Jennifer Sheridan. Starring Sophie Rundle, Matt Stokoe, and Olive Gray. SYNOPSIS: Gripped by a violent, terrifying illness, Rose lives in seclusion with her husband, but the arrival of a stranger shatters the fragile refuge they have built. Isolation is very much the theme of 2020 in a uniquely global […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, 2020. Directed by Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross. Starring Peter Elwell, Michael Martin, and Shay Walker. SYNOPSIS: A look at the final moments of a Las Vegas dive bar called The Roaring 20s. The term “slice of life” rarely applies more aptly than it does in Bill Ross IV and […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – One Man and His Shoes
One Man and His Shoes, 2020. Directed by Yemi Bamiro. Starring David Falk, Jemele Hill, Scoop Jackson, David Stern, and Rick Telander. SYNOPSIS: The story of the phenomenon of Air Jordan sneakers, showing their social, cultural, and racial significance, and how ground-breaking marketing strategies created a multi-billion-dollar business. Yemi Bamiro’s feature debut chronicles the distinctly American […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Ultraviolence
Ultraviolence, 2020. Written and directed by Ken Fero. SYNOPSIS: Since 1969, there have been over 2000 deaths in police custody in the UK. It is a frightening statistic that Ken Fero approaches with seasoned conviction. Ultraviolence employs unflinching archival footage to document the tragic and undignified deaths that took place between 1995 and 2005. Ken Fero’s […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Cicada
Cicada, 2020. Directed by Matt Fifer and Kieran Mulcare. Starring Matt Fifer, Sheldon D. Brown, and Sandra Bauleo. SYNOPSIS: New York City, 2013. A young bisexual man enters an interracial relationship. In the midst of the Sandusky trial, against the backdrop of a cicada summer, he comes to terms with his own childhood trauma. Multi-hyphenate filmmaker […]
Movie Review – Siberia (2020)
Siberia, 2020. Co-written and directed by Abel Ferrara. Starring Willem Dafoe, Dounia Sichov, and Simon McBurney. SYNOPSIS: A barman in Siberia heads to a nearby cave where he explores his dreams and memories. Abel Ferrara’s sixth collaboration with Willem Dafoe is by a measure their most challenging – if perhaps not their most successful – […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Intruder
The Intruder, 2020. Written and directed by Natalia Meta. Starring Érica Rivas, Nahuel Perez Biscayart, and Daniel Hendler. SYNOPSIS: The story of Inés, a young woman who after a traumatic episode during a trip with her partner begins to confuse herself between the real and the imaginary. Sound is a wholly undervalued aspect of filmmaking, and […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Undine
Undine, 2020. Written and directed by Christian Petzold. Starring Paula Beer, Franz Rogowski, and Maryam Zaree. SYNOPSIS: Undine works as an historian lecturing on Berlin’s urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. Undine has to kill the man who betrays her and return to the water. […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Wildfire
Wildfire, 2020. Written and directed by Cathy Brady. Starring Nora Jane Noone, Nika McGuigan, Kate Dickie, and Martin McCann. 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 […]
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