Director – Michaël Dudok De Wit – 2016 – France / Belgium / Japan – Cert. PG – 82m ***** A man shipwrecked on an island encounters a red turtle. From the get-go, this is not your usual 2D animated film. The Red Turtle is slow-paced, has no dialogue and is certainly not aimed at […]
Director – Chan Lok-yi – 2017 – Hong Kong – Cert. N/C 12+ – 23m ***** A schoolgirl looking for her first alcoholic drink falls in with a poor, unemployed man who likes to drink – online and Free To View in the UK in the Fresh Wave short films strand of Focus Hong Kong […]
Directors – Hao Wu, Weixi Chen, Anonymous – 2020 – China, US – Cert. 12– 93m ***1/2 A US documentary edited out of footage shot on the Wuhan Covid-19 hospital frontline by two Chinese reporters allowed access – on VoD from Friday, January 22nd Documentary film making is a curious medium – one might even […]
Director – Jennifer Sheridan – 2020 – UK – Cert. 15 – 86m ***** A couple isolate themselves from the outside world by living off grid in the woods for reasons not immediately apparent – out in the UK on digital including Amazon Prime from Monday, April 5th The LFF put this in their Cult […]
Director – Egor Abramenko – 2020 – Russia – Cert. 15 – 113m ***** some of the underlying concepts and all of the special effects ** everything else Available on VoD from Friday, August 14th. Now on Netflix In the early 1980s a two-man Russian spacecraft undergoes a mysterious incident during its return to Earth […]
Director – Gaspar Noé – 2018 – France – Cert. 18 – 97m ***** Uppers and downers – either way blood flows. Arthouse enfant terrible Noé combines technical skill and singular focus with some of the most spectacular dancing ever put on film to produce a dark and challenging vision of hell on earth – […]
Nonconformist poet A Quiet PassionDirected by Terence DaviesCertificate 12a, 126 minutesReleased 7 April 2017 A stern matriarch divides a school room of young women into those who are saved on one side and those who hope to be saved on the other. This leaves Emily Dickinson (Cynthia Nixon) in the middle because she hasn’t got […]