My Father’s Dragon, 2022. Directed by Nora Twomey FEaturing the voice talents of Jacob Tremblay, Gaten Matarazzo, Judy Greer, Ian McShane, Leighton Meester, Alan Cumming, Jackie Earle Hayley, Golshifteh Farahani, Dianne Wiest, Rita Moreno, Chris O’ Dowd, Adam Brody and Whoopi Goldberg. SYNOPSIS: Young Elmer Elevator (Jacob Tremblay) escapes the troubles of the real world […]
Exclusive Interview – Living director Oliver Hermanus
Chris Connor chats with Living director Oliver Hermanus… To coincide with its wide release this week, we sat down with Living director Oliver Hermanus to discuss the film playing at the festival, working with the acclaimed novelist Kazuo Ishiguro and the challenges and opportunities presented by adapting Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru and reinterpreting it for a […]
2022 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Wonder
The Wonder, 2022. Directed by Sebastián Lelio Starring Florence Pugh, Tom Burke, Kíla Lord Cassidy, Niamh Algar, Elaine Cassidy, Ciarán Hinds, Toby Jones, Dermot Crowley, David Wilmot, Josie Walker, and Brían F. O’Byrne SYNOPSIS: In a small Irish village in 1862, 11-year-old Anna (Kíla Lord Cassidy) is alleged to have not eaten in four months, […]
Movie Review – The Wonder (2022)
The Wonder, 2022. Directed by Sebastián Lelio Starring Florence Pugh, Tom Burke, Kíla Lord Cassidy, Niamh Algar, Elaine Cassidy, Ciarán Hinds, Toby Jones, Dermot Crowley, David Wilmot, Josie Walker, and Brían F. O’Byrne. SYNOPSIS: A tale of two strangers who transform each other’s lives, a psychological thriller, and a story of love pitted against evil. […]
2022 BFI London Film Festival Review – Women Talking
Women Talking, 2022. Written & Directed by Sarah Polley Starring Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Frances McDormand, Ben Whishaw, Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy. SYNOPSIS: In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling their reality with their faith. Based on the novel by Miriam Toews. Sarah Polley has had a long […]
2022 BFI London Film Festival Review – Decision to Leave
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-hyun SYNOPSIS: 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, […]
2022 BFI London Film Festival Review – Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande
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 […]
2022 BFI London Film Festival Review – Living
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 […]
2022 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Woman in the White Car
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 […]
2022 BFI London Film Festival Review – Causeway
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 […]
