The Kindergarten Teacher, 2018.Directed by Sara Colangelo. Starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Parker Sevak, Anna Baryshnikov, Rosa Salazar, Michael Chernus and Gael García Bernal.SYNOPSIS:A kindergarten teacher in New York becomes obsessed with one of her students whom she believes is a child prodigy.A rare Hollywood remake of an acclaimed, award-winning foreign film which arguably improves upon its inspiration, The […]
Movie Review – Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (2018)
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead, 2018.Directed by Ben Wheatley. Starring Neil Maskell, Hayley Squires, Sam Riley, Charles Dance and Joe Cole.SYNOPSIS:Colin hires a lavish country manor for his extended family to celebrate New Year. Unfortunately for Colin his position of power in the family is under serious threat from the arrival of his estranged brother David.Though […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Happy as Lazzaro
Happy as Lazzaro, 2018.Directed by Alice Rohrwacher. Starring Adriano Tardiolo, Sergi Lopez and Alba Rohrwacher.SYNOPSIS:The tale of a meeting between Lazzaro, a young peasant so good that he is often mistaken for simple-minded, and Tancredi, a young nobleman cursed by his imagination. Life in their isolated pastoral village Inviolata is dominated by the terrible Marchesa Alfonsina […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Bisbee ’17
Bisbee ’17, 2018.Directed by Robert Greene.SYNOPSIS:An old mining town on the Arizona-Mexico border finally reckons with its darkest day: the deportation of 1200 immigrant miners exactly 100 years ago. Locals collaborate to stage recreations of their controversial past.Robert Greene (Kate Plays Christine) serves up a powerful jolt to the conscience with this fascinatingly disturbing – and […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, 2018.Directed by Terry Gilliam. Starring Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce, Stellan Skarsgård, Olga Kurylenko, and Joana Ribeiro.SYNOPSIS:Toby, a disillusioned advertising executive, becomes pulled into a world of time jumping fantasy when a Spanish cobbler believes him to be Sancho Panza. He gradually becomes unable to tell dreams from reality.Terry Gilliam’s legendary, […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, 2018.Directed by Morgan Neville. Featuring Joanne Rogers, François Clemmons, Yo-Yo Ma, and Joe Negri.SYNOPSIS:An exploration of the life, lessons, and legacy of iconic children’s television host, Fred Rogers.Though legendary children’s TV personality Fred Rogers may not be especially well-known to British audiences, his cultural reach is so pervasive it’s hard […]
Movie Review – Utøya – July 22 (2018)
Utøya – July 22, 2018.Directed by Erik Poppe. Starring Andrea Berntzen.SYNOPSIS:A teenage girl struggles to survive and to find her younger sister during the July 2011 terrorist mass murder at a political summer camp on the Norwegian island of Utøya.Though it premieres at the LFF mere days after Paul Greengrass’ own dramatisation of the 2011 Norway […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Dogman
Dogman, 2018.Directed by Matteo Garrone. Starring Marcello Fonte and Edoardo Pesce.SYNOPSIS:Marcello, a small and gentle dog groomer, finds himself involved in a dangerous relationship of subjugation with Simone, a former violent boxer who terrorises the entire neighbourhood. In an effort to reaffirm his dignity, Marcello will submit to an unexpected act of vengeance.The latest tragicomedy from writer-director […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Wildlife
Wildlife, 2018.Directed by Paul Dano. Starring Carey Mulligan, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ed Oxenbould and Bill Camp.SYNOPSIS:A boy witnesses his parents’ marriage falling apart after his mother finds another man.Paul Dano makes a staggering debut with this emotionally charged adaptation of Richard Ford’s 1990 novel, a meticulously assembled drama about family, masculinity and female agency in 1960s America topped […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Nancy
Nancy, 2018.Directed by Christina Choe. Starring Andrea Riseborough, J. Smith-Cameron, Ann Dowd, John Leguizamo, and Steve Buscemi.SYNOPSIS:Nancy becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child. When she meets a couple whose daughter went missing thirty years ago, reasonable doubts give way to wilful belief.Andrea Riseborough adds yet another towering performance to her impressive repertoire with […]
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