Alexa Dalby Archives | Page 6 of 62

★★★★, Italy, out now, Reviews, Venice Biennale 2023, VoDMarch 31, 2024

Io Capitano (2023)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Io Capitano directed by Matteo Garrone is an empathetic, award-winning migrant story.

★★★★, BFI London Film Festival 2023, Japan, out now, Picturehouse, Reviews, Sundance, Venice Biennale 2023March 25, 2024

Evil Does Not Exist (2023) (Aku Wa Sonzai Shinai)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Evil Does Not Exist by Palme-d’or-winning director Ryu Hamaguchi is a sensitive, mesmeric ecological fable.

★★★, BFI London Film Festival 2023, Cannes Film Festival 2023, First-time filmmakers, out now, Reviews, Toronto, USAMarch 22, 2024

★★★☆☆
The Sweet East is cinematographer Sean Price Williams’ directorial debut, with a screenplay by film critic Nick Pinkerton. It stars Talia Ryder (Never Rarely Sometimes Always) as a contemporary Alice in Wonderland, a student on a dreamlike road trip, satirising US subcultures.

★★★, BFI London Film Festival 2023, biopic, Female Filmmakers, Ireland, out now, Reviews, UKMarch 22, 2024

Baltimore (2023)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
Baltimore (misleading title) is a biopic of the life of revolutionary class warrior Rose Dugdale in Ireland, written and directed by husband and wife team Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor.

★★★★, Argentina, BFI London Film Festival 2023, Brazil, Cannes Film Festival 2023, festivals, Mubi, out now, ReviewsMarch 19, 2024

The Delinquents (2023) (Los delincuentes)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
strong>The Delinquents directed by Rodrigo Morena is an enthralling, misleading Argentinian film – original but also reminiscent of Spike Jonze or a reversal of The Shawshank Redemption.

★★★, Austria, Female Filmmakers, festivals, out now, queerMarch 16, 2024

BFI Flare 2024: What a Feeling (2024)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
What a feeling by Kat Rohrer is a romcom of two middle-aged women, a late ‘coming of age’.

★★★, BFI Flare 2024, documentary, out now, queer, Reviews, USAMarch 15, 2024

BFI Flare 2024: Chasing Chasing Amy (2023)

By Alexa Dalby

In Chasing Chasing Amy director Sav Rodgers explains in a moving documentary of self-discovery what Kevin Smith’s iconic 1997 romcom Chasing Amy has meant…

★★★★, BFI Flare 2024, festivals, out now, ReviewsMarch 15, 2024

BFI Flare 2024: 13-24 March 2024

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
BFI Flare 2024: 13-24 March 2024

★★★, BFI London Film Festival 2023, Cannes Film Festival 2023, Female Filmmakers, festivals, France, Mali, oscars, out now, Qatar, ReviewsMarch 12, 2024

Banel & Adama (2023)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
Lusciously beautiful: the doomed romance in Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s poetic debut feature Banel & Adama takes place amid the severe effects of climate change in remote northeastern Senegal.

★★★★★, BFI London Film Festival 2023, Cannes Film Festival 2023, Croatia, festivals, France, Luxembourg, oscars, out now, Reviews, Romania, TorontoMarch 8, 2024

Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World (2023) (Nu astepta prea mult de la sfârsitul lumii)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★★
Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World is a wide-ranging, vicious satire on the post-communist, rampantly privatised, chaotically capitalist economy in Romania and everything else in modern European life, by Radu Jude.

★★★★★, BFI London Film Festival 2023, Cannes Film Festival 2023, documentary, Female Filmmakers, France, Germany, Modern Films, oscars, out now, Reviews, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Women FilmmakersMarch 8, 2024

Four Daughters (2023) (Les Filles d’Olfa)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★★
Four Daughters is a powerful and emotionally compelling mixture of documentary and drama directed by Kaouther Ben Hania that examines the roots of fundamentalism and how women pass on self-imposed repression through the generations.