Romería – London Film Festival 2025
Based loosely on writer/director Carla Simón’s own search to discover something about her deceased parents’ lives in 1980’s Spain, Romería is aContinue Reading
Tag: Family Drama
Film Review: The Courageous (Les Courageux) [2025]
An unstable mother struggling to keep her family together ends up drawing her children into her self-deception as she battlesContinue Reading
Film Review: Watch the Skies (2025)
A teenage girl (Inez Dahl Torhaug) defies her foster carers to team up with UFO investigators in Sweden. Watch the Skies implementsContinue Reading
National Anthem – Raindance Film Festival 2024
A young man’s journey of queer self-discovery in the Western landscape of New Mexico, Luke Gilford’s feature film debut National Anthem isContinue Reading
The Land Within – Raindance Film Festival 2023
Two timelines link a family secret in The Land Within, a Kosovo-set film from writer/director Fisnik Maxville. The film receives its UKContinue 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
Film Review: To the Moon (2022)
Actor/Writer/Director Scott Friend concocts a dark psychological slow burn family drama with To the Moon. If you learn many things fromContinue Reading
Film Review: The Quiet Girl (2022)
A triumph for the Irish film industry. The Quiet Girl is a gentle gem of a film about childhood, family relationships, andContinue Reading
Film Review: Hit the Road (2022)
Winner of the Best Film prize at last year’s London Film Festival, Iranian writer/director Panah Panahi’s first feature Hit the Road isContinue Reading