Friends and Strangers, 2021.Directed by James Vaughan. Starring Fergus Wilson, Emma Diaz, Victoria Maxwell, Greg Zimbulis, David Gannon, Jayden Muir, and Poppy Jones.SYNOPSIS:Two twenty-somethings from middle class backgrounds stumble into adulthood, with little ambition despite a lack of roadblocks.There are few films with an opening quite so poignantly evocative as Mike Nichols’ 1967 masterpiece The […]
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2021 Review – Shorta
Shorta, 2020.Directed by Anders Ølholm and Frederik Louis Hviid. Starring Jacob Lohmann, Simon Sears, Tarek Zayat, and Özlem Saglanmak.SYNOPSIS:Two policemen become trapped and fight to escape a dangerous distract when violence erupts, following the death of a criminal in custody.In the last year, the world has seen the death of George Floyd trigger protests against […]
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2021 Review – Riders of Justice
Riders of Justice, 2020.Directed by Anders Thomas Jensen. Starring Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Lars Brygmann, Nicolas Bro, Andrea Heick Gadeberg, Jesper Ole Feit Andersen, and Albert Rudbeck Lindhardt.SYNOPSIS:A man who has recently lost his wife in a train crash is contacted by a mathematician who doesn’t believe the event was an accident.Every event that […]
