Director Alice Troughton has a TV pedigree; she directed two of my favourite Doctor Who episodes – The Doctor’s Daughter and the iconic Midnight.
Continue readingThe Lesson (2023)
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Saltburn (2023)
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Emerald Fennell gives us Brideshead Revisited and The Talented Mr. Ripley dragged screaming into a fantastical modern world where desire perverts everything.
Continue readingAll of Us Strangers (2023)
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I still feel suffused with the golden light and intense motion of Andrew Haigh’s masterful exploration of individual and generational grief.
Continue readingThe Zone of Interest (2023)
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The ‘zone of interest’ was the Nazi party term for the 40 square kilometre area around Auschwitz and also the name of Martin Amis’s novel, a very different version of a glimpse into the life and home of Rudolf Höss.
Continue readingKneecap (2024)
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Music is a powerful tool for resistance and Rich Peppiatt’s delightfully frenetic retelling of the birth of northern Irish hip-hop band Kneecap shows the power and the vulnerability of sticking it to the Man.
Continue readingThe Small Back Room (1949)
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I’m a bit of a fan of a good 1940s film, specially when it is restored and shown up on a big screen. This one was scheduled because there was a Powell and Pressburger documentary at the festival this year and it was a pleasant way to pass the last Sunday morning of MIFF 2024.
Continue readingHoard (2023)
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This one will stick in your mind whether you love it or hate it. It’s like Fish Tank meets Kajillionaire.
Continue readingSeptember Says (2024)
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First time director Ariane Labed almost makes this darkly gothic tale work but fumbles its tricksy reveal.
Continue readingOccupied City (2023)
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A four hour documentary is always going to have its challenges. Steve McQueen (Hunger (2008)) takes a deep dive into the recorded history of the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam by overlaying a narrated retelling with a river of footage of the city in 2020 and 2021.
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