Film Review: Lapwing (2021)
Philip Stevens’ debut feature Lapwing settles down in an isolated community at the mercy of the drunken and violent whims of itsContinue Reading
Category: Marie O’Sullivan’s Film Reviews
The Noise of Engines – Raindance Film Festival 2021
The Raindance 2021 first features continue with The Noise of Engines, a Québécois film with just the right kind of quirkContinue Reading
Porcelain – Raindance Film Festival 2021
Another first feature at Raindance 2021, this time from Dutch director Jenneke Boeijink, Porcelain explores the fragility of family relationships in theContinue Reading
Far Eastern Golgotha – Raindance Film Festival 2021
Taxi driver Viktor Toroptsev is an unlikely YouTube sensation, but this documentary about a man determined to change things inContinue Reading
Beans – Raindance Film Festival 2021
A coming of age story from a little-seen historical and cultural perspective, centred on an indigenous girl growing up inContinue Reading
The Hill Where Lionesses Roar – Raindance Film Festival 2021
Three young women see their chance of independence slip from their grasp and decide to take matters into their ownContinue Reading
Petrov’s Flu – London Film Festival 2021
This surreal, fever-dream of a story set in post-Soviet Russia comes from controversial film and theatre director Kirill Serebrennikov, whoContinue Reading
Between Two Worlds – London Film Festival 2021
An account of a writer exposing the economic difficulties of low-paid workers in northern France is either a well-intentioned misfire,Continue Reading
Film Review: The Show (2021)
The legend of graphic novel writing that is Alan Moore even makes a rare on-screen appearance in this Mitch Jenkins-directedContinue Reading
Wood and Water – London Film Festival 2021
Contemplative and slow-paced, Wood and Water sees a recently-retired woman travelling to reunite with her son, but instead finding an inner connectionContinue Reading