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 […]
Movie Review – Undine (2020)
Undine, 2020.Written and directed by Christian Petzold.Starring Paula Beer, Franz Rogowski, Jacob Matschenz, Maryam Zaree, Anne Ratte-Polle, Julia Franz Richter, Rafael Stachowiak, José Barros and Gloria Endres de Oliveira.SYNOPSIS:Undine works as a historian lecturing on Berlin’s urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. Undine has […]
Movie Review – The Intruder (2020)
The Intruder, 2020.Directed by Natalia Meta. Starring Erica Rivas, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Daniel Hendler, Cecilia Roth, Mirta Busnelli and Agustín Rittano.SYNOPSIS:A dubbing artist and singer is plagued by troubling noises and an unravelling mental state in the wake of trauma.There’s an interesting little sub-genre of horror movies and dark thrillers set in the world of […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Another Round
Another Round, 2020Directed by Thomas Vinterberg. Starring Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Lars Ranthe and Magnus Millang.SYNOPSIS: Four friends, all high school teachers, test a theory that they will improve their lives by maintaining a constant level of alcohol in their blood.‘It’s not just a film about drinking. Our ambition was to make a film […]
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 – The Salt In Our Waters
The Salt In Our Waters, 2020.Directed by Rezwan Shahriar Sumit. Starring Titas Zia, Tasnova Tamanna, Fazlur Rahman Babu and Ashok Bepari.SYNOPSIS:When a sculptor visits a remote fishing village in Bangladesh, he finds himself beloved by some locals and treated as a dangerous invader by others.Multiple films at this year’s LFF focus on developing countries as […]
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