Director – Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren – 2023 – Spain – Cert. 12a –128m ** An eight-year-old assigned male at birth struggles with their gender identity while mum struggles with her artistic identity as a sculptress – plays the 2023 London Film Festival which runs from Wednesday, October 4th until Sunday, October 15th, and will be […]
Director – Francisca Alegria – 2022 – Chile, France, US, Germany – Cert. 15 – 98m ***1/2 A dead woman emerges resurrected from a polluted river to reconnect with her husband, children and grandchildren – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 24th The banks of a river cutting through a forest, strewn with dead […]
Director – Hong Won-chan – 2020 – South Korea – Cert. 18 – 108m ***** An assassin trying to rescue his ex-girlfriend’s child from organ thieves discovers a rival is after him for killing his brother – Wednesday, October 26th, 20.30 at The Cinema At Selfridges as part of a strand of films celebrating actor […]
Director – Jay Bedwani – 2022 – UK – Cert. 15 – 75m ***1/2 A look at the everyday life of Donna Personna, a trans activist from a Baptist background living in San Francisco – released in cinemas and on Bohemia Euphoria on Friday, July 15th This threw me at first because it appears to […]
Director – Li Jun – 2018 – Hong Kong – Cert. N/C 15+ – 119m ***** It’s complicated. Upon hearing of the death of his oldest and dearest friend, a fiftysomething questions the edifice of family life he has constructed around himself over the decades – screened online in the UK as part of Focus […]