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
Category: Marie O’Sullivan’s Film Reviews
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
Lakelands – MANIFF 2023
A moving film set in the Irish midlands, which reflects on men struggling to find a way to express theirContinue Reading
We Might As Well Be Dead – MANIFF 2023
Dropped into this enclosed community with no introduction, it doesn’t take long before the absurdities come to light. A loneContinue Reading
watchAUT – Austrian Film Festival 23-26 March 2023
A short festival of Austrian film gets underway on 23rd March at London’s Ciné Lumière, featuring a couple of unexpectedly heart-warmingContinue Reading
Cairo Conspiracy – MANIFF 2023
An espionage thriller set in Egypt’s most prestigious university for the study of Islam, Cairo Conspiracy is tense, engaging, and not entirelyContinue Reading
Chevalier – MANIFF 2023
If you, like many, have not come across Joseph Bologne before, then Chevalier is an entertaining introduction to this 18th-century violin virtuoso,Continue Reading
Film Review: EO (2022)
Jerzy Skolimowski acknowledges that his donkey story, EO, takes another donkey story, Au Hasard Balthazar, as inspiration. His observation of the human elementContinue Reading
Film Review: Nostalgia (2022)
The problem with nostalgia is that it’s not real. Perhaps, like Felice, you can kid yourself for a while thatContinue Reading