London Film Festival · 2012
13 films · 8 reviews
There simply isn't anything here that will surprise anyone who is a veteran of cop films, with characters' actions, plot twists, misdirections and revelations quite easy to see coming.
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Nick Murphy; Writer: Bill Gallagher; Stars: Paul Bettany, Mark Strong, Brian Cox)
(Country: Italy; Year: 2012; Director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani; Stars: Fabio Cavalli, Salvatore Striano)
The bottom falls out of sanity in a way that, despite being based on real events, feels deeply unsatisfactory.
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Craig Zobel; Writer: Craig Zobel; Stars: Ann Dowd, Dreama Walker, Pat Healy, Bill Camp, Philip Ettinger, James McCaffrey, Matt Servitto, Ashlie Atkinson, Nikiya Mathis, Ralph Rodriguez, Stephen Payne, Amelia Fowler, John Merolla, Desmin Borges, Matt Skibiak)
(Country: India; Year: 2012; Director: Prakash Jha; Writer: Prakash Jha, Sagar Pandya, Anjum Rajabali; Stars: Abhay Deol, Arjun Rampal, Manoj Bajpayee, Anjali Patil)
This is at once a densely interlocking slice of Scandi-crime, an intense set of character pieces, and a poly-lingual indictment of a variety of shades of greed.
(Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark; Year: 2010; Director: Daniél Espinosa; Writer: Maria Karlsson; Stars: Joel Kinnaman, Matias Padin Varela, Dragomir Mrsic)
(Country: Sweden; Year: 2012; Director: Babak Najafi; Writer: Maria Karlsson, Peter Birro; Stars: Joel Kinnaman, Fares Fares, Dejan Cukic)
Ana Piterbarg attempts the acrobatic and ill-advised feat of presenting the plot of a B movie noir through the prism of arthouse sombreness.
(Country: Argentina, Spain, Germany; Year: 2011; Director: Ana Piterbarg; Writer: Ana Piterbarg; Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Soledad Villamil, Daniel Fanego)
A confident metaphysical mystery which, as a calling card, offers a tantalising glimpse into the future of Korean cinema, while coming with a gimmick of its own.
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2011; Director: Park Hong-min; Writer: Park Hong-min; Stars: Lee Janghoon, Kim Sunbin, Choi Soeun)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2012; Director: Byun Youngjoo; Writer: Byun Youngjoo, based on the book by Miyabe Miyuki.; Stars: Lee Sunkyun, Kim Minhee, Cho Seongha)
Given the Rampling family pedigree there are certain expectations of quality, and Southcombe largely lives up to the promise with this sharply stylish crime mystery that gives plenty of space for Rampling to flex her acting muscles.
(Country: UK, Germany, France; Year: 2012; Director: Barnaby Southcombe; Writer: Elsa Lewin, Barnaby Southcombe; Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Gabriel Byrne, Hayley Atwell, Eddie Marsan)
Because the pace is kept brisk and the two lead actors play so well off each other and are so magnetic on screen, Nameless Gangster never bores.
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2012; Director: Yoon Jongbin; Writer: Yoon Jongbin; Stars: Choi Minsik, Ha Jeongwoo, Jo Jinwoong)
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Rowan Athale; Writer: Rowan Athale; Stars: Luke Treadaway, Timothy Spall, Iwan Rheon, Gerard Kearns, Matthew Lewis, Vanessa Kirkby)
When the dam finally breaks it does so with a rush that still doesn't manage to overwhelm the sense of disappointment at its 'is that all?' reveal.
(Country: Australia; Year: 2012; Director: Kieran Darcy-Smith; Writer: Kieran Darcy-Smith, Felicity Price; Stars: Joel Edgerton, Teresa Palmer, Felicity Price, Antony Starr)
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