Leeds International Film Festival · 2022
13 films · 9 reviews
Both leads are excellent.
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2020; Director: Yoon Jong-seok; Writer: Yoon Jong-seok; Stars: So Ji-seob, Kim Yunjin, Im Jin-Ah, Choi Kawng-il)
(Country: Thailand; Year: 2022; Director: Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit; Writer: Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit; Stars: Nat Kitcharit, Urassaya Sperbund, Anusara Korsamphan)
Where it could easily have been gimmicky or relied on comedy, instead it achieves something magical and illuminating.
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2022; Director: Park Syeyoung; Writer: Park Sye-young)
Storywise, there’s not a great deal here which hasn’t been done before, but it will be new to the young audience it’s really aimed at, and it’s beautifully told.
(Country: Japan; Year: 2021; Director: Atsuko Ishizuka; Writer: Atsuko Ishizuka; Stars: Natsuki Hanae, Kana Hanazawa, Yûki Kaji, Ayumu Murase)
Skilfully crafted, The Harbinger is a rightly distressing, melancholy take on the events of the recent past and the troubles we still live with today.
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Andy Mitton; Writer: Andy Mitton; Stars: Raymond Anthony Thomas, Gabby Beans, Stephanie Roth Haberle, Emily Davis, Laura Heisler, Cody Braverman)
This is less about the puzzle of who the murderer is... than about the way he slots into society and, after his arrest, is viewed by the public.
(Country: Denmark, Germany, Sweden, France; Year: 2022; Director: Ali Abbasi; Writer: Ali Abbasi, Afshin Kamran Bahrami; Stars: Zar Amir-Ebrahimi, Mehdi Bajestani, Arash Ashtiani, Forouzan Jamshidnejad, Sina Parvaneh, Nima Akbarpour, Sara Fazilat, Alice Rahimi, M. Ali Nazarian, Sima Seyed, Firouz Ageli, Farhad Faghih Habibi)
Wonderfully uncomfortable.
(Country: Peru, Mexico; Year: 2022; Director: Michelle Garza Cervera; Writer: Michelle Garza Cervera, Abia Castillo; Stars: Alfonso Dosal, Samantha Castillo, Martha Claudia Moreno, Mayra Batalla, Sonia Couoh, Aida López, Pablo Guisa Koestinger, Mercedes Hernández, Enoc Leaño, Anahí Allué, Natalia Solián, Gabriela Velarde)
What makes all this work is the very straightforward and matter-of-fact way in which Dupieux approaches the story.
(Year: 2022; Director: Quentin Dupieux; Stars: Alain Chabat, Léa Drucker, Benoît Magimel, Anaïs Demoustier)
While the choreography of all this is audacious, Hardiman is equally interested in dialogue. He loves an intricately worked sentence as much as a finely coiffed barnet.
(Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Thomas Hardiman; Writer: Thomas Hardiman; Stars: Clare Perkins, Kayla Meikle, Darrell D'Silva, Anita-Joy Uwajeh, Kae Alexander, Heider Ali, Luke Pasqualino, Debris Stevenson, Lilit Lesser)
(Year: 2022; Director: Eduardo Casanova)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2022; Director: Hisashi Kimura; Writer: Yuya Takahashi, based on the book by Kôji Suzuki; Stars: Hiroyuki Watanabe, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Fuka Koshiba, Kazuma Kawamura, Naomi Nishida)
The film is less about ambition or striving for success, as it’s about the fetishisation of that image of success, and how striving for the perfect image can destroy you.
(Country: Norway, Sweden; Year: 2022; Director: Kristoffer Borgli; Writer: Kristoffer Borgli; Stars: Anders Danielsen Lie, Eirik Sæther, Kristine Kujath Thorp)
(Country: Spain, France; Year: 2022; Director: Alberto Vázquez; Writer: Alberto Vázquez)
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