Palimpsest: Raindance Film Festival 2023
Wouldn’t it be great to be young again, yet retain all the knowledge you have accumulated over the years? Palimpsest, whichContinue Reading
Author: Marie O'Sullivan
The Books He Didn’t Burn: Raindance Film Festival 2023
The texts that Adolf Hitler chose to keep in his library tell us much about the man and his philosophy.Continue Reading
The Rye Horn – London Film Festival 2023
A compelling tale of female solidarity set in rural Spain and Portugal in the 1970s, The Rye Horn made historyContinue Reading
Lubo – London Film Festival 2023
Just when it seemed that all the Second World War injustices had finally been revealed, along comes Switzerland with aContinue Reading
Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano – London Film Festival 2023
In competition at the London Film Festival in the Documentary category, Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano takes a behind-the-scenes look at aContinue Reading
That They May Face the Rising Sun – London Film Festival 2023
Irish filmmaker Pat Collins adapts author John McGahern’s last novel, a sad, gentle look at rural Irish life in theContinue Reading
Last Summer – London Film Festival 2023
A mismatched couple upset blissful family life in Catherine Breillat’s Last Summer, playing at the London Film Festival. Director Catherine BreillatContinue Reading
Celluloid Underground – London Film Featival 2023
In competition at the London Film Festival in the Documentary category, the London-based, Iranian-born filmmaker Ehsan Khoshbakht explores and explainsContinue Reading
Film Review: L’immensità (2023)
Rome in the 1970s is the setting for Emanuele Crialese’s latest film, featuring Penélope Cruz as a mother attempting to shield herContinue Reading
Film Review: Godland (2023)
The arrogance of colonisers, particularly those driven by their religious beliefs, meets the might of nature head-on, and there isContinue Reading