Director – Greta Bellamacina – 2019 – UK – Cert. 12a – 85m ***1/2 A single parent mum poet and her upstairs lodger actress pursue their dreams in London’s Fitzrovia and Margate – in cinemas from Friday, September 18th A strangely likeable, meandering little movie, this concerns single mum Celeste Blackwood (director and co-writer Greta […]
Director – Chihiro Amano – 2019 – Japan – Cert. 12a – 106m **** A writer and young mother struggling with an elusive second novel finds herself dealing with a noisy, futon-beating neighbour in a rapidly escalating row exacerbated by viral internet videos – plays online in the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2021 in […]
Director – Ben Brand – 2017 – Holland – 87m **** Privacy in the age of internet exposure. An act of animal cruelty on a video goes viral with terrible, unforeseen consequences – from the Schlingel International Film Festival 2018 One sunny afternoon, in a forest, Lizzy (Senna Fokke) picks up several puppies one by […]