Director – Hur Jin-ho – 2023 – South Korea – Cert. – 116m *** Lacking any moral sense of right and wrong, the teenage children of two brothers, a lawyer and a doctor, kick a homeless man to death – from LKFF, the London Korean Film Festival 2023 which runs in cinemas from Thursday, November […]
Director – Louis Garrel – 2022 – France – Cert. 15 – 99m ***1/2 A trusting woman marries a soon-to-be-released convict in prison only for her suspicious son to start following him after the man’s release and soon find himself out of his depth – out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 25th Warning: plot […]
Director – Terence Davies – 2021 – UK – Cert. 12a – 137m **** The life of First World War poet Siegfried Sassoon, his homosexual lifestyle and his heterosexual marriage – out in cinemas on Friday, May 20th It’s been five years since Davies’ previous film A Quiet Passion (2016) and the curious thing is, […]
Glum heroes BenedictionDirected by Terence DaviesCertificate 12a, 137 minutesReleased 20 May Films about poets are few; however, the director Terence Davies has now made two in a row as different as their historical subjects. The earlier A Quiet Passion (Reform, April 2017) concerns the introverted, isolated, American spinster Emily Dickinson while the current Benediction is […]
Director – Cary Joji Fukunaga – 2021 – UK – Cert. 12a – 163m ***** We have all the time in the world. The new Bond movie gives Daniel Craig’s James Bond unexpected space to deal with human relationships and mortality – out on Blu-ray and DVD in the UK on Monday, December 20th and […]
Director – Ridley Scott – 2021 – US – Cert. 15 – 157m ***** A woman marries into the wealthy Gucci family and inadvertently brings about its downfall – out in cinemas on Friday, November 26th First impressions. A beautiful day. A well-dressed man (Adam Driver) relaxes at the café, pays his bill, cycles through […]
Director – Naomi Kawase – 2014 – Japan / France – Cert. 15 – 119m ***** Two childhood sweethearts living on an island beset by storms must come to terms with the mortality and fallibility of their mothers – on BFI Player (rental) and MUBI. The ocean roars and then, just as suddenly, is quiet. […]
Director – Quentin Dupieux – 2019 – France – Cert. 15 – 77m **** A man buys a deerskin jacket then decides he should be the only person who can wear a jacket which leads to disastrous consequences – on BFI Player and Curzon Home Cinema rental from Monday, October 4th Georges (Jean Dujardin from […]
Director – Caroline Catz – 2020 – UK – 98m ***** Docudrama explores the ten years the legendary electronic musician spent at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop – on BBC iPlayer from Sunday, May 16th for a year Part documentary, part drama and part performance art, this is a fascinating examination of Delia Derbyshire, the woman […]
Director – Paul Morrison – 2020 – UK – Cert. 12a – 102m ****1/2 A man over sixty meets a woman of around the same age over 23 walks with their respective dogs – in cinemas from Friday, September 25th Walk 1. Dave (Dave Johns) is out walking his Alsatian Tilly (Sheila) in a narrow, […]