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.
London Film Festival
BFI LFF 2019: The King (2019)
★★★☆☆
The King by David Michôd takes a revisionist look at the history we know from Shakespeare, with a star performance by Timothée Chalamet as Henry V.
BFI LFF 2019: The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019)
★★★☆☆
The Peanut Butter Falcon transcends initial discomfort to become a wish fulfilment, odd-couple odyssey with a soft centre.
BFI LFF 2019: 8-13 October
★★★★☆
BFI LFF 2019: 8-13 October. The Whistlers, Deerskin, Algo-Rhythm and So Long, My Son.
BFI LFF 2019 OPENING GALA: The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019)
★★★☆☆
The Personal History of David Copperfield is Armando Iannucci’s brilliantly imaginative transformation of Dickens’ novel to bring out its contemporary resonances.
BFI LFF 2019: By the Grace of God (Grâce à Dieu) (2018)
★★★★☆
Based on real-life events, in By the Grace of God François Ozon empathetically opens up a French scandal of child abuse in the Catholic Church going back over 20 years.
BFI LFF 2019: Monos (2019)
★★★★★
Monos by Alejandro Landes (Porfirio), set among volatile, trainee teenage guerillas in Latin America, is quite simply one of this year’s best and most disturbing films.
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.
BFI LFF 2019: I Die of Sadness Crying for You (2019)
★★★★☆
I Die of Sadness Crying For You is for all those interested in how music, and the sound of a voice, can take us on journeys no other art form can.
In Fabric (2018)
★★★★☆
In Fabric is director Peter Strickland’s latest giallo-influenced horror with a pastiche, absurd ‘70s feel.
Support the Girls (2018)
★★★★☆
Support the Girls, by Andrew Bujalski, is a funny, fast-paced workplace comedy drama that’s seriously on the side of its female characters.
A Season in France (2017)
★★★★☆
A Season in France is Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s moving film focusing on the plight of a father and his family, asylum seekers in the grip of hostile bureaucracy.
Sometimes Always Never (2018)
★★★★☆
Sometimes Always Never, directed by Carl Hunter, is a delightfully quirky film puzzle that revolves around Scrabble and that always-compelling national treasure Bill Nighy.