Director – John Andreas Andersen – 2022 – Norway – Cert. 12 – 104m *** An underwater technician attempts to rescue her lover who is trapped and probably dead on an oil rig amidst impending ecological disaster – out on digital on Monday, May 30th The Norwegian title translates literally as North Sea, so renaming […]
Director – Lin Huida – 2022 – China – Cert. PG – 100m **** The latest movie in this long-running, animated Chinese franchise, hugely successful at the Chinese (and therefore global) box office, is the first to get a UK cinema release – in a dubbed format for family audiences – out in UK cinemas […]
Director – Joachim Trier – 2021 – Norway – Cert. 15 – 128m ***** A young woman learns about both herself and life through two personal relationships – twice Oscar-nominated film is on MUBI from Friday, May 13th Trying to reinvent herself, Julie (Renate Reinsve) spends her student days moving from medicine into psychology (believing […]
Director – Robert Eggers – 2022 – US – Cert. 15 – 136m ***** A 10th Century Viking prince vows revenge on his father king’s killer and sees it through to death – out in cinemas on Friday, April 15th Young Viking Prince Amleth (Oscar Novak from The Batman) is thrilled when his warrior father […]
Director – Shinya Tsukamoto – 2002 – Japan – Cert. 18 – 77m ***** Unlike any terrorised female narrative you’ve ever seen, at once bizarre and hugely rewarding – currently streaming on BFI Player as part of the BFI Japan 2021 programme This review originally appeared in What’s On In London, June 2003. In an […]
Director – Lee Jong-pil – 2020 – South Korea – Cert. 12 – 110m ***** Three undervalued corporate women employees investigate an environmental cover up at their company – a teaser screening from the London Korean Film Festival 1995, Korea. Three twentysomething women working in the Samjin Company are consistently undervalued. They meet up after […]
Director – Andrew Levitas – 2020 – US – Cert. 15 – 114m **** A dramatisation of celebrated photographer W. Eugene Smith’s investigation of Japan’s Minamata environmental atrocity in 1971 – out in cinemas and on digital from Friday, August 13th This feels like a Hollywood actor-led project with laudable aims which comes unstuck somewhere […]
Secretary Director – Steven Shainberg – 2002 – US – Cert. 18 – 106m ***** A Snake Of June (Rokugatsu No Hebi, 六月の蛇) Director – Shinya Tsukamoto – 2002 – Japan – Cert. 18 – 77m ***** Double DVD review originally published in Third Way, February 2004. The cover image (rear view of a female […]