BFI London Film Festival 2012: ‘Memories Look at Me’ review
★★★☆☆ Unsurprisingly, given its title, the past plays a major role in the debut feature film of Song Fang, best known as the nanny in […]
BFI London Film Festival 2012: ‘Clip’ review
★★★☆☆ With several awards scooped on its festival travels thus far – including a Tiger Award in Rotterdam – and having being banned in Russia, […]
BFI London Film Festival 2012: ‘Antiviral’ review
★★★☆☆ Brandon Cronenberg displays the creative genes he was born to engage with Antiviral (2012), a fittingly abstract body horror that whilst clearly influenced by […]
BFI London Film Festival 2012: ‘Beyond the Hills’ review
★★★★☆ Fresh from the Palme d’Or success of the undeniably bleak and dour 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days (2007), Romanian director Cristian Mungiu returns […]
BFI London Film Festival 2012: ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ review
★★★★☆ A big-screen adaptation of Lucy Alibar’s play Juicy and Delicious, Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) is a picturesque coming of age […]
BFI London Film Festival 2012: ‘Here and There’ review
★★☆☆☆ Nobody would question the fact that Antonio Mendez Esperanza’s Here and There (Aquí y Allá, 2012) raises some extremely important and relevant points about […]
BFI London Film Festival 2012: ‘Just the Wind’ review
★★★★☆ Hungarian director Benedek Fliegauf’s bleak and brutally affecting Eastern block drama Just the Wind (Csak a szél, 2011) was one of the very best […]
BFI London Film Festival 2012: ‘Spike Island’ review
★★☆☆☆ The 90s were great, weren’t they? You had Oasis, Blur, Pulp, and of course The Stone Roses, who are given near mythical status in […]