Deerskin – Review Louise Burrell July 15, 2021 Reviews Tearing through its meagre 77-minute runtime, Deerskin wastes no time on plot set-up. It becomes quickly apparent that the storyline simply consists of: man buys deerskin jacket, man believes deerskin jacket...
If It Were Love – LFF 2020 Review Anna McKibbin October 13, 2020 Reviews If It Were Love is a hypnotic illustration of life, art and how the two fold into one another. The documentary follows 15 young dancers rehearsing and performing a movement piece. The performances is an ode to...
Jeune Femme – Review Tom Bond May 19, 2018 Reviews This film was previously reviewed on 23/05/17 as part of Cannes Film Festival. Roaring down the trail blazed by the likes of Lena Dunham’s Girls, Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag and Gillian...
Michel Hazanavicius on Redoubtable Louise Burrell May 8, 2018 Behind The Curtain, Features, Interview Based on French actress Anne Wiazemsky's autobiography, Redoubtable is an intimate biopic of a very specific period in Jean-Luc Godard's life. Following his overwhelming success as the leader of French New...
BPM (Beats Per Minute) – Review Tom Bond April 1, 2018 Reviews This film was previously reviewed on 21/05/17 as part of Cannes Film Festival. Acclaimed writer/director Robin Campillo returns with BPM (Beats Per Minute), an incendiary and challenging film about the Act...
9 Fingers – LFF 2017 Review L D October 4, 2017 Reviews Punk filmmaker F.J. Ossang, whose previous titles include Docteur Chance, Dharma Guns and the intriguingly titled Treasure of Bitch Islands, returns to the silver screen with 9 Fingers, an impressionistic and...
La Mélodie – Venice 2017 Review Jack Blackwell September 3, 2017 Reviews Generally the first exposure to foreign film for a British child is in a French lesson towards the end of term. Over the last decade or so, 2004’s The Chorus and the 2008 Palme d’Or winner The...
Scribe – Review Louise Burrell July 15, 2017 Reviews When unemployed Duval (François Cluzet) is offered a job transcribing phone calls for a suspiciously vague "security firm", he blindly accepts, desperate to prove his worth in the world and get back to a life...
Jeune Femme – Cannes 2017 Review Tom Bond May 23, 2017 Reviews Roaring down the trail blazed by the likes of Lena Dunham’s Girls, Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag and Gillian Robespierre’s Obvious Child, Jeune Femme is the most memorable and entertaining film of the...
BPM (Beats Per Minute) – Cannes 2017 Review Tom Bond May 21, 2017 Reviews Acclaimed writer/director Robin Campillo returns with BPM (Beats Per Minute), an incendiary and challenging film about the Act Up AIDS protest movement in France in the nineties. This might sound like a...
The Innocents – Review Calum Baker November 13, 2016 Reviews History has its headlines, but also its page sixes. The Innocents, in following a group of Polish nuns immediately after WWII, is a sharp and sad examination of forgotten tales. Russians have settled in...
The Measure Of A Man – LFF Review Ellena Zellhuber-McMillan October 3, 2015 Reviews With a disconnected structure that barely qualifies as coherent narrative, The Measure of a Man is so ‘slice of life’ it could be the exemplary film of that genre. Incredibly well acted, the subtlety...