Drive My Car – London Film Festival 2021
Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Haruku Murakami, and Anton Chekhov walk into a theatre … and the result is three hours of quietlyContinue Reading
Category: Marie O’Sullivan’s Film Reviews
White Building – London Film Festival 2021
A young man must come to terms with multiple changes in his life, as his friends move on and theContinue Reading
Nudo Mixteco – London Film Festival 2021
A Mexican village sees the return of three of its former inhabitants, all of whom have come back to dealContinue Reading
What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? – London Film Festival 2021
Star-crossed lovers fail to recognise each other as the result of a strange spell, and what follows is a poemContinue Reading
Memory Box – London Film Festival 2021
Weaving together past and present, three generations of women, and straddling Beirut in the 1980s and Montréal of today, Memory Box remindsContinue Reading
Cop Secret – London Film Festival 2021
Banish all thoughts of Nordic Noir – Cop Secret is an action-comedy buddy cop movie which embraces the tropes of Hollywood’s recognisableContinue Reading
Film Review: Hester Street (1975)
The brand new 4K restoration of Joan Micklin Silver’s debut feature Hester Street (first released in 1975) has just received its NewContinue Reading
Film Review: Surge (2021)
This challenging feature debut from director Aneil Karia, starring a disturbingly intense Ben Whishaw, will have you gripped and squirmingContinue Reading
Film Review: Wife of a Spy (2021)
Containing the suspense and plot-twists of a Hollywood movie of the 1950s, Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Venice Silver Lion-winning filmContinue Reading
Film Review: Small World (2021)
A Polish police officer undertakes a decades-long journey across the globe in search of a child abducted by the RussianContinue Reading