London Film Festival · 2014
12 films · 11 reviews
Hard to forget.
(Country: China, Hong Kong; Year: 2014; Director: Peter Chan; Writer: Zhang Ji; Stars: Zhao Wei, Huang Bo, Tong Dawei, Hao Lei)
The Duke Of Burgundy is delicate, constructed, poised; a piece of naturalistic beauty with all the authentic artificiality of wings pinioned while drying by small pieces of paper, a needle through the heart that wrenches.
(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Peter Strickland; Writer: Peter Strickland; Stars: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Chiara D'Anna)
A difficult film, and a film about difficult women.
(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Carol Morley; Writer: Carol Morley; Stars: Greta Scacchi, Maisie Williams, Maxine Peake, Joe Cole, Mathew Baynton, Monica Dolan, Ben Kerfoot, Ellie Bamber, Florence Pugh, Hannah Stokely, Anna Burnett, Morfydd Clark, Katie Ann Knight, Sarah Lowe, Rose Caton)
Transformation is coming, although as with Sciamma's previous films this is not a simple, one-way manoeuvre, completed in double-quick time
(Country: France; Year: 2014; Director: Céline Sciamma; Writer: Céline Sciamma; Stars: Diabate Idrissa, Rabah Nait Oufella, Tatiana Rojo, Karidja Touré)
An astonishing début that marks out Ana Lily Amirpour as an extraordinary directorial talent.
(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Ana Lily Amirpour; Writer: Ana Lily Amirpour; Stars: Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Marshall Manesh, Mozhan Marnò, Dominic Rains, Rome Shadanloo, Milad Eghbali, Reza Sixo Safai, Pej Vahdat)
An artfully constructed and effective thriller with a feminist spine.
(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Daniel Barber; Writer: Julia Hart; Stars: Hailee Steinfeld, Sam Worthington, Brit Marling, Amy Nuttall, Ned Dennehy, Kyle Soller, Nicholas Pinnock, Muna Otaru, Charles Jarman, Bogdan Farkas, Luminita Filimon, Anna-Maria Nabirye, Stefan Velniciuc, Delia Riciu)
The performances are powerful, unforgettable, like ice in the wind
(Country: Russia; Year: 2014; Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev; Writer: Oleg Negin, Andrey Zvyagintsev; Stars: Aleksey Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Roman Madyanov, Anna Ukolova, Kristina Pakarina, Sergey Pokhodaev, Aleksey Rozin, Lesya Kudryashova, Aleksey Pavlov, Alim Bidnenko)
Sexuality, Francois Ozon's latest film declares, can be as complex as desiring another person can be simple.
(Country: France; Year: 2014; Director: François Ozon; Writer: François Ozon; Stars: Romain Duris, Anaïs Demoustier, Raphaël Personnaz, Michèle Raingeval, Jean-Claude Bolle-Reddat, Jonathan Louis, Audrey Quoturi)
Petzold depicts a country in shock, where everyone is trying to rediscover a sense of self and where survival may be viewed less a miracle than something unbearable in the face of so many losses.
(Country: Germany; Year: 2014; Director: Christian Petzold; Writer: Christian Petzold, Harun Farocki, based on Return From The Ashes by Hubert Monteilhet; Stars: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf, Michael Maertens, Imogen Kogge, Kirsten Block, Uwe Preuss, Eva Bay, Jeff Burrell, Sofia Exss, Megan Gay, Daniela Holtz, Max Hopp, Nikola Kastner, Valerie Koch)
(Year: 2014; Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf; Writer: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Marziyeh Meshkiny; Stars: Misha Gomiashvili, Dachi Orvelashvili)
It's a pity the plot doesn't offer more in the way of surprises
(Country: Australia; Year: 2014; Director: Julius Avery; Writer: Julius Avery, based on the novel by John Collee; Stars: Brenton Thwaites, Ewan McGregor, Alicia Vikander, Damon Herriman, Matt Nable, Nash Edgerton, Jacek Koman, Jesse McGinn, Eddie Baroo, Tom Budge, Rick Tonna, Tammie West, Isaac Money, Ben Weirheim, Warwick Sadler)
The way Sissako exposes the double standard makes the Jihadists' behavior no less threatening, on the contrary.
(Country: France, Mauritania; Year: 2014; Director: Abderrahmane Sissako; Writer: Abderrahmane Sissako, Kessen Tall; Stars: Pino Desperado, Abel Jafri, Toulou Kiki, Kettly Noël, Hichem Yacoubi)
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