Apocalypse Clown (2023)
★★★☆☆
Apocalypse Clown directed by George Kane is bizarre and and anarchic: it won Best Irish Film at the Galway Film Fleadh.
Venice Film Festival 2023: 30 August-9 September
★★★★☆
Venice Film Festival 2023
Passages (2023)
★★★★☆
Passages is Ira Sachs’ toxic European love triangle set in Paris, starring Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw and Adèle Exarchopoulos.
Bobi Wine: The People’s President (2022)
★★★ώ☆
Bobi Wine:The People’s President: an illuminating Uganda-set National Geographic documentary about the hugely popular musician turned politician who challenged the incumbent, long-serving President.
The Innocent (2023)
★★★★☆
The Innocent (L’Innocent), Louis Garrel’s fourth film, is a César-winning caper with a French accent.
Scrapper (2023)
★★★★☆
Scrapper, an inventive, award-winning first feature written and directed by Charlotte Regan, was the crowd-pleasing opening film of the Sundance London Film Festival.
Locarno Film Festival 2023 Awards
★★★★☆
Locarno Film Festival 2023 Awards
Galway Film Fleadh 11-16 July 2023
★★★★☆
Galway Film Fleadh 2023
Sundance London 2023 – Opening and Closing Films
★★★★☆
Sundance London 2023 Opening and Closing Films
Locarno Film Festival 2023
★★★★☆
Locarno Film Festival 2023
Smoking Causes Coughing (2022) (Fumer Fait Tousser)
★★★☆☆
Smoking Causes Coughing, the brainchild of über-absurdist Quentin Dupieux, is bizarre, very, very silly, strangely disquieting and rather flimsy.
Sundance Film Festival London 2023 – 6-9 July
★★★★☆
Sundance London 2023
Mother and Son (2022) (Un Petit Frère)
★★★★☆
Mother and Son is an ★★★★☆
involving, compassionate film by Léonor Serraille that poignantly shows the difficulties and the effects on a family – both positive and negative – of immigration into a strange country.
La Syndicaliste (2022)
★★★★☆
Isabelle Huppert stars in Jean-Paul Salomé’s thriller and nuclear-industry investigation La Syndicaliste, based on the recent true story of French union official Maureen Kearney.