BFI London Film Festival 2012: ‘Captive’ review
★★☆☆☆ Directed by Brillante Mendoza and starring the incredibly watchable Isabelle Huppert (The Piano Teacher [2001], White Material [2009]), 2012’s Captive (also referred to as […]
BFI London Film Festival 2012: ‘Save Your Legs!’ review
★☆☆☆☆ The comedy feature debut from Aussie born director Boyd Hicklin, Save Your Legs! (2013) is an odd choice for a festival film, even if […]
BFI London Film Festival 2012: ‘The We and the I’ review
★★★☆☆ Michel Gondry’s London Film Festival select The We and the I (2012) is the product of a recent after-school program the French filmmaker coordinated, […]
BFI London Film Festival 2012: ‘Accession’ review
★★☆☆☆ Issue movies are always problematic. It is rare that the cause that they champion is not an important and worthy one, but their very […]
BFI London Film Festival 2012: ‘Laurence Anyways’ review
★★★☆☆ LFF entry Laurence Anyways (2012) is Québécois director Xavier Dolan’s third full-length feature. Renowned for his exquisite visual style and sumptuous cinematography, there’s always […]
BFI London Film Festival 2012: ‘Amour’ review
★★★★★ Winner of the coveted Palme d’Or prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Michael Haneke’s heartbreaking Amour (2012) makes its UK debut in LFF’s […]
BFI London Film Festival 2012: ‘The Hunt’ review
★★★☆☆ Back in 1998, Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg (with the aid of an inflammatory script from enfant terrible Lars von Trier) shook up the cinematic […]
BFI London Film Festival 2012: ‘Room 237’ review
★★★★☆ Let’s assume for a moment that you’ve seen Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. A hauntingly, intense horror with stunning cinematography and a career defining performance […]
BFI London Film Festival 2012: ‘Reality’ review
★★★★☆ Matteo Garrone’s Palme d’Or nominated and Grand Prix winning Reality (2012) appears in the ‘Debate’ strand of this year’s London Film Festival, with this […]
BFI London Film Festival 2012: ‘Doomsday Book’ review
★★☆☆☆ Jee-woon Kim and Pil-Sung Yim’s portmanteau film Doomsday Book (2012) started production in 2006 when the first two segments of the piece were complete. […]