Director – Tamara Kotseva – 2025 – North Macedonia – Cert. 12a – 81m ***** A farmer, whose livelihood has collapsed thanks to economics and government policy, cares for a stork with a broken wing – in cinemas from Friday, December 12th This begins with a simple voiceover story. Silyan, ostracised from the other storks because […]
Director – François Ozon – 2023 – France – Cert. 12a – 102m ***** Two young women, an actress and a lawyer, take advantage of casting couch sex abuse of the former to boost both of their fledgeling careers – sharp period comedy with more to it underneath the surface is out in UK and […]
Director – Joshua Marston – 2004 – US, Colombia – Cert. 15 – 101m Reviewed for Third Way magazine to coincide with UK release date 25/03/2004. Life’s options are limited for 17-year-old Maria Alvarez (Catalina Sandino Moreno). She would rather climb old ruined buildings in the open air than succumb to her parochially-minded boyfriend’s constant […]
Director – Koji Fukada – 2022 – Japan, France – Cert. 12a – 123m ***** A tragedy involving a woman’s six-year-old child, abandoned by his birth father, wreaks havoc on her already strained relationship with the husband she has recently married – on BFI Player from Monday, November 6th following its release in UK cinemas […]