BFI London Film Festival 2012: ‘Everybody in Our Family’ review
★★★★☆ From Radu Jude, the director of The Happiest Girl in the World (2009), comes London Film Festival entry Everybody in Our Family (2012)....
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17 October 2024
#LFF 2024: It’s Not Me review
★★★★☆ A swift but singular filmmaking self-portrait, Leos Carax’s It’s Not Me reflects on the French auteur’s 40-year directorial career, as well as his many cinematic – and canine – influences.
10 October 2024
#LFF 2024: Conclave review
★★★★☆ Ralph Fiennes approaches top form as a spiritually and morally-conflicted cardinal during a Vatican Conclave in Edward Berger’s gripping, oft-humorous follow-up to the multi-Oscar-winning All Quiet On the Western Front.
12 October 2023
#LFF 2023: The Zone of Interest review
★★★★★ Theodor Adorno famously wrote that poetry was not possible after Auschwitz, but is cinema? Billy Wilder certainly thought so, getting footage from the camps as evidence as much as anything else. Steven Spielberg, Claude Lanzmann, Alain Resnais and Roberto Benigni have all with differing degrees of success tried their hands.
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BFI London Film Festival 2012: ‘The Samurai That Night’ review
★★★☆☆ Japanese arthouse drama The Samurai That Night (2012) is a compelling tale of a young, nervous man who, after losing his wife in...
BFI London Film Festival 2012: ‘Beware of Mr. Baker’ review
★★★☆☆ The lifeblood of any great band is its drummer, with their percussive pulse acting as the beating heart behind a song’s memorable melody....
BFI London Film Festival 2012: ‘Rust and Bone’ review
★★★★☆ After premiering at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Jacques Audiard’s elegant yet muscular Rust and Bone (2012) was met with assorted feelings, with...
BFI London Film Festival 2012: ‘Francine’ review
★★★★☆ Starring Academy Award-winning actress Melissa Leo, Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky’s Francine (2012) is a surprisingly provocative piece of stripped-down social realism...
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...
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...
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...
