London Film Festival · 2012
25 films · 9 reviews
Haneke goes far beyond pushing emotional buttons into territory where our most visceral fears lurk.
(Country: France, Germany, Austria; Year: 2012; Director: Michael Haneke; Writer: Michael Haneke; Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert)
(Country: France; Year: 2011; Director: Héléna Klotz; Writer: Héléna Klotz; Stars: Eliott Paquet, Dominik Wojcik)
Underneath the sound and fury is a subtle, poignant and often very funny take on growing up.
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Rufus Norris; Writer: Mark O’Rowe; Stars: Eloise Laurence, Tim Roth, Cillian Murphy, Robert Emms, Zana Marjanovic, George Sergeant, Denis Lawson, Clare Burt)
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Adam Sherman; Writer: Adam Sherman, Rachel Hardisty, Dave Reeves; Stars: Lukas Haas, Madeline Zima, Tania Raymonde)
(Country: Israel; Year: 2012; Director: Amir Manor; Writer: Amir Manor; Stars: Yosef Carmon, Rivka Gur)
Stéphane Brizé's perfectly balanced two-hander is a breath of fresh air.
(Country: France; Year: 2012; Director: Stéphane Brizé; Writer: Stéphane Brizé, Florence Vignon; Stars: Vincent Lindon, Hélène Vincent, Emmanuelle Seigner)
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Joshua Sanchez; Writer: Joshua Sanchez; Stars: Wendell Pierce, Emory Cohen, Aja Naomi King, EJ Bonilla)
Vibrant, funny and ultimately touching, Leon's loose limbed narrative is an ode to both the tribulations of adolescence and the city in which it's set.
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Adam Leon; Writer: Adam Leon; Stars: Tysheeb Hickson, Zoë Lescaze, Joshua Rivera, Tashiana R. Washington) , Official site
(Country: Portugal, Brazil, Angola; Year: 2012; Director: Zézé Gamboa; Writer: Luís Carlos Patraquim, Luís Alvarães; Stars: Lázaro Ramos, João Lagarto, Pedro Hossi)
A gently paced but unsparing and unglamorous portrait of a gay relationship where love doesn't and perhaps never could conquer all.
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Ira Sachs; Writer: Ira Sachs, Mauricio Zacharias; Stars: Thure Lindhardt, Zachary Booth, Julianne Nicholson, Souleymane Sy Savane, Paprika Steen) , Official site
A sublime lesson in emotional manipulation through cinematic traditions.
(Country: France, Japan; Year: 2012; Director: Abbas Kiarostami; Writer: Abbas Kiarostami; Stars: Ryo Kase, Rin Takanashi, Denden, Tadashi Okuno, Ryota Nakanishi)
Poupaud and Clement subtly delineate their character’s changes while maintaining an intensity that keeps the audience involved amid all the flashy distractions.
(Country: Canada, France; Year: 2012; Director: Xavier Dolan; Writer: Xavier Dolan; Stars: Melvil Poupaud, Suzanne Clément, Nathalie Baye, Monia Chokri)
(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2011; Director: David Vondráček)
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Liz Garbus; Stars: Marilyn Monroe)
(Country: China; Year: 2012; Director: Fang Song; Stars: Fang Song)
(Country: Germany, Argentina; Year: 2012; Director: Jeanine Meerapfel; Writer: Jeanine Meerapfel; Stars: Celeste Cid, Max Riemelt, Benjamin Sadler)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2011; Director: Kwang-kuk Lee; Stars: Young-Pil Kim, Dong Mi Shin, Chai-eu Lee, David Lee)
Jake Schreier and scriptwriter Christopher Ford go well beyond the initial fun of the robot conceit to craft a thoughtful film musing on both the ageing process and our relationship with technology.
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Jake Schreier; Writer: Christopher D Ford; Stars: Frank Langella, James Marsden, Liv Tyler, Susan Sarandon, Liev Schreiber, Jeremy Strong, Katherine Waterston, Bonnie Bentley, Joshua Ormond, Dario Barosso, Rachael Ma, Dana Morgan, Hunter Reid, Jesse Newman)
It is a well-observed portrait of the family ties that bind, but with insufficient narrative development to justify its length.
(Country: Switzerland, France; Year: 2012; Director: Ursula Meier; Stars: Léa Seydoux, Gillian Anderson, Martin Compston, Johan Libéreau, Jean-François Stévenin, Kacey Mottet Klein, Yann Trégouët, Magne-Håvard Brekke) , Official site
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Sean Baker; Writer: Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch; Stars: Dree Hemingway, Besedka Johnson, Stella Maeve)
(Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg; Year: 2012; Director: Frédéric Fonteyne; Writer: Anne Paulicevich, Philippe Blasband; Stars: François Damiens, Sergi Lopez, Anne Paulicevich)
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2011; Director: Mads Matthiesen; Writer: Mads Matthiesen, Martin Zandvliet; Stars: Kim Kold, Elsebeth Steentoft, Lamaiporn Sangmanee Hougaard, David Winters, Allan Mogensen)
(Country: Argentina, Netherlands, France; Year: 2012; Director: Gonzalo Tobal; Writer: Gonzalo Tobal; Stars: Esteban Lamothe, Esteban Bigliardi, Lucía Cavallotti)
(Country: Austria; Year: 2012; Director: Ruth Mader)
(Country: Sri Lanka, India; Year: 2012; Director: Prasanna Vithanage; Writer: Prasanna Vithanage; Stars: Anjali Patil, Shyam Fernando, Wasantha Moragoda)
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