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The Tenants
(Se-ip-ja,
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Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date November 13 2024
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Director – Yoon Eun-Kyung – 2023 – South Korea – LKFF Cert. 12 – 90m ***** In a black & white, futuristic Seoul, a tenant who sublets his rental apartment to prevent his eviction finds out that this approach has its drawbacks – from LKFF, the London Korean Film Festival 2024 which runsin cinemas from […]

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Light Falls

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date November 15 2023
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Director – Phedon Papamichael – 2023 – Georgia, Greece, Albania, Germany – Cert. none – 90m***** A Greek island, a lesbian couple from L.A., migrant Albanian workers, a racist cop, and an abandoned brutalist hotel… What could possibly go wrong? – terrific thriller premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition at the 27th Tallinn Black Nights […]

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Paris Memories
(Revoir Paris)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date August 3 2023
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Director – Alice Winocour – 2022 – France – Cert. 15 – 105m **** A woman tries to recall her memories of a Paris terrorist attack – out in UK cinemas on Friday, Aug 4th Were it not for a singularly unconvincing sex scene (as in, why are these two characters having sex?) about ten […]

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Sócrates

Director – Alexandre Moratto – 2018 – Brazil – Cert. 15 – 71m ***** In selected UK cinemas and digital rental platforms including Barbican Cinema on Demand, BFI Player, Curzon Home Cinema and Peccadillo Player from Friday, September 4th It’s morning in coastal São Paulo. Sócrates (Christian Malheiros), 15, goes in to see his mum […]

Tags age limit 18, bereavement, Brazil, casual labour, emotional, gay relationship, homelessness, landlady, parents and children, poverty, rent, slum, social deprivation, underclass, youth

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Real

Director – Aki Omoshaybi – 2019 – UK – Cert. 15 – 78m *** Boy meets girl but both are embarrassed by their economic circumstances so pretend to be much better off than they are – in cinemas and on BFI Player and Sky Store from Friday, September 11th Kyle (director Aki Omoshaybi) and Jamie […]

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La Haine

Director – Mathieu Kassovitz – 1995 – France – Cert. 15 – 98m ***1/2 Three disenchanted, immigrant youths from a banlieu estate take themselves to Central Paris for 24 hours – in cinemas from Friday, September 11th, on Blu-ray from Monday, November 16th and on BFI Player from Friday, December 18th There’s a verbal story […]

Tags #blacklivesmatter, estate, falling, France, gangs, housing estate, immigrant, Molotov Cocktail, Paris, Planet Earth, police, poverty, riot, social deprivation, underclass, violence, youth

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Les Misérables

Director – Ladj Ly – 2019 – France – Cert. 15 – 104m **** Exclusively in cinemas from Friday, September 4th Although this takes its title from Victor Hugo’s eponymous novel, it’s not really an adaptation except in the loosest possible sense. It ends on a quote from the book: “There are no bad plants, […]

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