BFI LFF Review: The Guilty (2018)
★★★★☆
Truth and justice clash in The Guilty (Den skyldige), Gustav Möller’s claustrophobic thriller , where no-one can walk away with their innocence intact.
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BFI LFF Review: Colette (2018)
★★★★☆
Keira Knightley dons a corset again to portray France’s greatest woman author Colette from country girlhood to scandalous adulthood in Wash Westmoreland’s Colette.
Us and Them (2017)
★★★★☆
Joe Martin’s Us and Them is a violent riff on the inequalities of contemporary British society that incense articulate young working-class Danny (Jack Roth, channelling his father Tim) and what he does about it.
BFI LFF 2018 previews (3)
★★★★☆
Previews from the London Film Festival 10-21 October – Border, Assassination Nation, Papi Chulo, Lizzie, The Guilty and Joy.
BFI LFF 2018 previews (1)
★★★★☆
Previews from the London Film Festival 10-21 October – Wildlife and Crystal Swan.
BFI LFF Review: Crystal Swan (2018)
★★★★☆
The female-centric team of director Darya Zhuk, co-screenwriter Helga Landauer and cinematographer Carolina Costa give Alina Nasibullina a Madonna-esque starring role in post-Soviet black comedy Crystal Swan (Khrustal).
Faces Places (Visages Villages) 2017
★★★★☆
Legendary filmmaker Agnes Varda teams up with photographer JR in a charming creative road trip around France that celebrates the extraordinariness of ordinary people and the power of the imagination.
German Film Weekend – London
★★★★☆
For the first time, the Regent Street Cinema is partnering with German Films to bring you FACE TO FACE WITH GERMAN TALENT: THE GERMAN FILM WEEKEND from 21-23 September 2018.
Climax
★★★★☆
Gaspar Noé’s hallucinogenic Climax is as hard core as its bad trip.
Wajib (2017)
★★★★☆
Wajib translates as ‘duty’ and Annemarie Jacir’s film focuses on a beautifully observed father-son relationship as they take a road trip around Nazareth amid the confines of being an Arab in Israel.
The Guardians (2017)
★★★★☆
Xavier Beauvois’ The Guardians Les Guardiennes is a beautiful period recreation of a time of change for women and society in rural France during the First World War.
Under the Tree/Undir trénu (2017)
★★★☆☆
Under the Tree by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson is a mordant suburban black comedy that escalates an everyday situation into shocking Icelandic horror.
The Heiresses/Las Herederas (2018)
★★★★☆
Economically crumbling Paraguay after many years of patriarchal dictatorship is the setting for a subtle story of female self-discovery in Marcelo Martinessi’s The Heiresses.
Racer and the Jailbird
★★★★☆
Xavier Beauvois’ The Racer and the Jailbird stars Adèle Exarchopoulos and Matthias Schoenaerts in an intense, high-speed love affair.