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★★★★, Cannes Film Festival 2021, Mubi, Norway, out now, Reviews, romanceMarch 21, 2022

The Worst Person in the World (2021)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
The Worst Person in the World is an enchanting but dark Nordic coming-of-age-rom-com by Joachim Trier, starring a luminous, award-winning central performance by Renate Reinsve.

★★★★, BFI Player, biopic, documentary, London Film Festival 2021, out now, Reviews, UK, USAFebruary 15, 2022

The Real Charlie Chaplin (2021)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
The Real Charlie Chaplin directed by Peter Middleton and James Spinney is an immersive documentary that focuses on how Chaplin compulsively reflected his personal life in his films.

★★★★★, animation, Denmark, Drama, festivals, London Film Festival 2021, oscars, out now, Reviews, SundanceFebruary 9, 2022

Flee (2021)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★★
Flee, by Jonas Poher Rasmussen, a documentary made with a blend of animation and archive footage tells an immensely powerful true story of a gay Afghan refugee in Denmark.

★★★★, Cannes Film Festival 2021, London Film Festival 2021, out now, Reviews, RussiaFebruary 9, 2022

Petrov’s Flu (2021)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Petrov’s Flu by Kirill Serebrennikov is hallucinogenic, violent and disturbing – a post-apocalyptic vision of present or future applicable in any country where politics trumps people.

★★★★★, Argentina, festivals, France, London Film Festival 2021, out now, Reviews, SwitzerlandOctober 27, 2021

Azor (2021)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Azor, Andra Fontana’s subtle, sophisticated feature debut, unsettles with an increasing sense of dread as a Swiss banker is enveloped in the Argentinian junta’s heart of darkness.

London Film Festival 2021, Reviews, UKOctober 13, 2021

BFI LFF 2021: Boiling Point

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Boiling Point, directed in an amazing single take by Philip Barantini, stars a wonderful performance by Stephen Graham as a chef in a pressure-cooker kitchen.

★★★★, Argentina, Berlin Film Festival 2021, France, London Film Festival 2021, out now, SwitzerlandOctober 13, 2021

BFI LFF 2021: Azor (2021)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Azor, Andra Fontana’s subtle, sophisticated feature debut, unsettles with an increasing sense of dread as a Swiss banker is enveloped in the Argentinian junta’s heart of darkness.

★★★★, Chris Drew, Female Filmmakers, Ireland, London Film Festival 2020, out now, Reviews, UKSeptember 13, 2021

Herself (2020)

By Chris Drew

★★★★☆
After escaping an abusive marriage, a young Irish mother’s plan to self-build a home is fraught with complications in director Phyllida Lloyd’s empowering Herself.

★★★, Germany, On Demand, out now, ReviewsSeptember 9, 2021

The Collini Case (2019)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
The Collini Case by Marco Kreuzpaintner is a slickly made German legal drama that hinges on postwar European history.

★★★★, Chris Drew, Denmark, out now, ReviewsAugust 31, 2021

★★★★☆
During a time of high police tension, two officers find themselves trapped in a notorious estate as riots break out in writer/directors Frederick Louis Hviid and Anders Ølholm’s gripping and timely Danish drama Shorta.