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London 2015: ‘I Am Belfast’ review

By CineVue 14 October 201511 December 2017

LFF / Patrick Gamble

★★★★☆ The city as a symphony of long-forgotten memories, Mark Cousins’ ode to his hometown, I Am Belfast (2015), is a refreshingly hopeful depiction of a place habitually represented in cinema as a battleground of sectarian violence. In Cousins’ latest essay film, Helena Bereen plays Belfast, the city personified as Continue Reading

London 2015: ‘The Corpse of Anna Fritz’ review

By CineVue 14 October 201511 December 2017

Ben Nicholson / LFF

★★★☆☆ Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the morgue. Having all feared for so long that you would never get the film about a cadaver that you’d been yearning for, two are released in quick succession. In September, Pablo Agüero’s Eva Doesn’t Sleep (2015) – Continue Reading