BFI LFF 2019: I Die of Sadness Crying for You (2019)
★★★★☆
I Die of Sadness Crying For You is for all those interested in how music, and the sound of a voice, can take us on journeys no other art form can.
Genre
Ready or Not (2019)
★★★☆☆
Comedy horror thriller Ready or Not is a high-speed roller-coaster ride between the gruesome and the absurd.
For Sama (2019)
★★★★★
For Sama, a documentary about the last days of Aleppo filmed and directed by Waad Al-Khateab, Edward Watts, is the most moving film you’ll see this year.
Mrs Lowry & Son (2019)
★★★★☆
Mrs Lowry & Son showcases Timothy Spall and Vanessa Regrave in a claustrophobic two-hander of the abusive relationship that drove one of Britain’s great painters.
Photograph (2019)
★★★☆☆
Photograph is another sweet and wistful love story from the director of The Lunchbox, Ritesh Batra.
Marianne and Leonard: Words of Love (2019)
★★★★☆
Marianne and Leonard: Words of Love is Nick Broomfield’s poignant, moving documentary about an enduring relationship between soulmates.
Varda by Agnès (2019)
★★★★★
In Varda by Agnès, her last film, iconic film director and feminist Agnès Varda looks back on her ground-breaking, long career at the age of 90. of 90.
The Dead Don’t Die (2019)
★★★☆☆
Jim Jarmusch puts the dead into deadpan as zombies threaten small-town America in The Dead Don’t Die.
Vita and Virginia (2018)
★★☆☆☆
Vita and Virginia by Chanya Button is a literary biopic doesn’t do justice to its iconic protagonists.
In Fabric (2018)
★★★★☆
In Fabric is director Peter Strickland’s latest giallo-influenced horror with a pastiche, absurd ‘70s feel.
John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection (2018)
★★★☆☆
John McEnroe’s fiery artistry on court is put under the microscope in Julien Faraut’s unique documentary John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection, which examines tennis as theatrical performance.
Sometimes Always Never (2018)
★★★★☆
Sometimes Always Never, directed by Carl Hunter, is a delightfully quirky film puzzle that revolves around Scrabble and that always-compelling national treasure Bill Nighy.
Rolling Thunder Revue (2019)
★★★★★
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese is Scorsese’s immersive film recreation of Dylan’s chaotic, 57-date musical caravan that toured the US and Canada in 1975.
Festival Review: Dead Fred (2019)
★★★★☆
Dead Fred is a dark comedy about shady goings-on in a sunny New Forest location to die for, directed in an Ealing comedy vein by Deanna Dewey and starring Sandra Dickinson.