Director – Juho Kuosmanen – 2021 – Finland – Cert. 15 – 107m ***** A student taking a long, sleeper train from Moscow to the Arctic finds herself sharing a compartment with a drunken male slob – out in cinemas on Friday, April 8th Finnish archaeology student Laura (Seidi Haarla) lives in Moscow with her […]
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 – Tran Thanh Huy – 2019 – Vietnam – Cert. 12a – 79m ***** An urban street kid works as a lottery runner to survive while a slightly older boy attempts to steal his turf – from the London East Asia Film Festival (LEAFF), on now Spending his nights alone in his slum rooftop […]
Director – Benh Zeitlin – 2021 – US – Cert. 12a – 111m ***** A bold re-imagining of Peter Pan told through the eyes of Wendy which is unlike any other version of the story you’re likely to see – out in cinemas on Friday, August 13th Her mother runs a fast and furious restaurant. […]
Director – Hong Khaou – 2019 – UK – Cert. 12a – 85m ****1/2 A man who has lived in England for 30 years returns to Saigon and Hanoi to discover the Vietnam his late parents left behind – in cinemas and on Vimeo, BFI Player, Curzon Home Cinema, Amazon and elsewhere from Friday, September […]
Director – Kim So-young (as Kim Jeong) – 2017 – South Korea – 87m **** How an indigenous theatre company kept the culture of the Koryo people alive after they were deported by the Soviet authorities from Far East Russia to Kazakhstan in 1937 – in the documentary season: Korean Film Nights: In Transit presented […]
Director – Theodore Ushev – 2019 – Canada – 27m ***** From the Annecy 2020 Online Animation Festival. Available to watch on Amazon here. Voice-over narration by Rossif Sutherland with the occasional line echoed by Donald Sutherland (or Xavier Dolan with Manuel Tadros in the French language version) accompanies extraordinary serial images. The verbals are […]
Director – Mariusz Wilczynski– 2020 – Poland – 88m ****1/2 From the Annecy 2020 Online Animation Festival From its opening of a man smoking in the dark to its closing image of giants tied down on a beach like felled Gullivers in Lilliput, this is awash with the sort of gloomy imagery readily associated with […]