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London Film Festival

2010

Danny Boyle's 127 Hours closed London Film Festival
Danny Boyle's 127 Hours closed London Film Festival

The 54th London Film Festival will run from October 13 to 28. The Opening Night film was Never Let Me Go, directed by Mark Romanek, and Danny Boyle's 127 Hours drew the festival to a close.

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  • Pandora's Box
    Review preview for Pandora's Box

    Full of striking imagery which, once seen , will stay with you forever.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A beautiful young woman exploits her sexuality to enjoy freedom and power in 1880s London.
  • The Trip
    Review preview for The Trip

    The Trip is a big costume drama without the costumes.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 3.5 out of 5
    A comic road trip through the north of England.
  • Silent Souls
    Review preview for Silent Souls

    Alexey Fedorchenko's elegiac and moving film marries melancholic longing with absurdism and presents its fiction in the cloak of facts.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Two friends travel across Russia hoping to bury the dead wife of one of them where she and her husband spent their honeymoon.
  • Poetry
    Review preview for Poetry

    Veteran actress Yun Jeong-hie, who came out of a 15-year retirement to take on the role of Mija brings a fragile beauty and strength to the part, lending her character an air of inscrutability that is intriguing rather than frustrating.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A grandmother discovers poetry and begins to reassess the world around her.
  • Spork
    Review preview for Spork

    Spork may pluck the heartstrings but its does so with an askew sense of humour free of Hollywood schmaltz.

    Neil Mitchell · 3.5 out of 5
    Foul-mouthed, musical coming-of-age tale
  • Life, Above All
    Review preview for Life, Above All

    Director Oliver Shmitz does a good job of balancing the immediate, visible tragedy of the characters we follow with a wider, national problem.

    James Benefield · 3.5 out of 5
    A 12-year-old girl struggles to protect her family as her stepfather descends into alcoholism and her mother becomes increasingly ill, in a small town full of prejudice and hostility.
  • Everything Must Go
    Review preview for Everything Must Go

    There's something increasingly bland and uninvolving about this Will Ferrell vehicle which, like him or loathe him, you've got to admit is a kind of achievement.

    James Benefield · 2 out of 5
    Tale of a middle-aged suburbanite whose life is crumbling.
  • The Princess Of Montpensier
    Review preview for The Princess Of Montpensier

    The twisting narrative is rendered skilfully so that it is easy to follow even as allegiences and alliances shift, and there is plenty of space to revel in the complexity of the characters.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A story of forbidden love set against the religious wars between Catholics and Protestants in the 16th century. Plus, read our with Bertrand Tavernier.
  • 13 Assassins
    Review preview for 13 Assassins

    Ultimately, what you see is what you get in 13 Assassins. Lots of blood and death and despicable cruelty.

    Robert Munro · 4 out of 5
    A retired samurai has to assemble a squad of assassins and set a town-sized trap.
  • Film Socialisme
    Review preview for Film Socialisme

    A dizzying array of original and masterly techniques.

    Chris · 5 out of 5
    A group of passengers on a cruise ship wrestle with existential questions.

A–Z of London Film Festival 2010 reviews