BFI LFF 2019: It Must Be Heaven (2019)
★★★★☆
It Must Be Heaven continues Elia Suleiman’s deadpan global quest for recognition of Palestinian identity and homeland.
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BFI LFF 2019: Bacurau (2019)
★★★★☆
Bacurau by Kleber Mendonça Filho is an exhilarating mixture of genres – political satire, western, science fiction – underpinned by savage political and social comment. It’s a blast.
BFI LFF 2019: The Climb (2019)
★★★★☆
In original, smart buddy comedy movie The Climb co-writer/directors Kyle Marvin and Michael Angelo Covino play two losers also called Kyle and Mike.
BFI LFF 2019: Atlantics (2019)
★★★★☆
Atlantics (Atlantiques) is Mati Diop’s dreamlike feature debut focusing on the women left behind when Senegalese migrant workers take to the seas.
BFI LFF 2019: Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
★★★★★
Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a sumptuously sensual lesbian love story set in 1770 that comments fiercely on the role of women in society – then and now.
BFI LFF 2019: Previews 3-7 October
★★★★☆
BFI LFF 2019: Previews 3-7 October. Beanpole, Lucky Grandma, Nimic, White Girl, Zombi Child and Bad Education.
BFI LFF 2019: Previews (2-5 October)
★★★★☆
BFI London Film Festival previews 2-5 October: Recorder, Axone, Öndög, Clemency, The Warden, A Pleasure, Comrades! and The Antenna.
For Sama (2019)
★★★★★
For Sama, a documentary about the last days of Aleppo filmed and directed by Waad Al-Khateab, Edward Watts, is the most moving film you’ll see this year.
Pain and Glory (2019)
★★★★☆
In personal and revealing Pain and Glory (Dolor y Gloria) award-winning director Pedro Almodóvar looks back on his life, loves and passion for films.
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019)
★★★★☆
Quentin Tarantino’s ninth film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, melds the obsessions of his previous films into a mature masterpiece.
The Dead Don’t Die (2019)
★★★☆☆
Jim Jarmusch puts the dead into deadpan as zombies threaten small-town America in The Dead Don’t Die.
Amin (2018)
★★★☆☆
Amin by Philippe Faucon is an inconclusive cross-continent, cross-race contemporary migration story with one fascinating foot in Senegal and one in France.
Cannes Film Festival 2019: Award Winners
Cannes Film Festival 2019 Day 12: Award Winners Palme d’Or Bong Joon-Ho for Parasite, the first Korean winner of the Palme d’Or and the…
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Cannes Film Festival 2019: Day 9
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2019: Day 9