When I Saw You/Lamma Shoftak (2014)
★★★☆☆
Annemarie Jacir’s When I Saw You takes an optimistic look at the late 1960s Palestinian refugee crisis, but asks more questions than it answers.
★★★☆☆
Annemarie Jacir’s When I Saw You takes an optimistic look at the late 1960s Palestinian refugee crisis, but asks more questions than it answers.
★★★☆☆
Fast-moving, gruesome, twisted, about-to-be cult thriller that underneath the horror may pack a violent satirical punch. If ever a film did what it says on the tin, it’s this.
★★★★☆
A personal film from Roman Polanski, Venus In Fur is an exhilarating satire with a career-defining performance from Emmanuelle Seigner.
★★☆☆☆
In spite of its intriguing political backdrop, Omar is a disappointing film which relies too heavily on tired old cliches
★★★★☆
In a corrupt and broken Mexican society, Heli sees an innocent family bring violent retribution on themselves when they unwittingly cross a brutal drug cartel.
★★☆☆☆
A Jewish caper in New York, John Turturro’s Fading Gigolo finds its gentle comedy in a star-studded Manhattan romance.
★★★☆☆
Beautifully photographed and insightfully narrated, Beyond The Edge is a worthy chronicle of a New Zealand beekeeper’s quest to conquer the tallest mountain on earth.
★★★★☆
Hossein Amini’s The Two Faces Of January is a stylish adaptation of a Patricia Highsmith thriller as a married couple and a stranger get drawn deeper into a dangerous relationship of mutual dependence.
★★★☆☆
With a family and a circus brought together by a meaningless conflict, Janez Burger’s Silent Sonata stages the symphonic madness of war.
★★★★☆
What happens when a wannabe musician finds himself caught up in a band that’s a cross between a commune and a boot camp, led by an unstable avant-garde musical genius, Frank, who never takes off a giant papier-mâché head?
★★★☆☆
As a thirty-year marriage crumbles in Luxembourg, Philippe Claudel’s Before The Winter Chill goes beyond family drama to find a black heart of darkness.
★★★★☆
An utterly charming, funny and exhilarating film about football, community and tolerance, Next Goal Wins is the perfect World Cup warm up.
★★★☆☆
Gruff Rhys’ musical journey to retrace the footsteps of relative John Evans is a weird and mostly wonderful romantic odyssey.
★★★★☆
Winner of the Camera d’Or for best debut feature at Cannes 2013, Anthony Chen’s Ilo Ilo is a masterfully intimate look at Singaporean family life.