London Film Festival · 2015
36 films · 15 reviews
Mixes observations on capitalism, society and storytelling.
(Country: Portugal, France, Germany, Switzerland; Year: 2015; Director: Miguel Gomes; Writer: Miguel Gomes, Mariana Ricardo, Telmo Churro; Stars: Crista Alfaiate, Dinarte Branco, Carloto Cotta, Adriano Luz, Rogério Samora, Maria Rueff, Cristina Carvalhal)
(Country: Germany, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, France; Year: 2015; Director: Visar Morina; Writer: Visar Morina; Stars: Val Maloku, Astrit Kabashi, Adriana Matoshi, Enver Petrovci, Xhevdet Jashari)
(Country: Italy, France, Switzerland; Year: 2015; Director: Marco Bellocchio; Writer: Marco Bellocchio; Stars: Alba Rohrwacher, Federica Fracassi, Filippo Timi, Toni Bertorelli, Roberto Herlitzka, Ivan Franek, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio, Lidiya Liberman, Fausto Russo Alesi, Elena Bellocchio, Sebastiano Filocamo, Alberto Cracco, Patrizia Bettini, Bruno Cariello, Alberto Bellocchio)
Malgorzata Szumowska takes a playful approach to the subjects of eating disorders and grief with suprisingly effective results.
(Country: Poland; Year: 2015; Director: Malgorzata Szumowska; Writer: Malgorzata Szumowska; Stars: Janusz Gajos, Maja Ostaszewska, Justyna Suwala)
Fairman and Gogarty try to give a sense of the appeal of this hedonistic abandonment, while simultaneously showing how deeply saddening and traumatic much of the activity is.
(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: William Fairman, Max Gogarty)
(Country: Mexico; Year: 2015; Director: David Pablos; Writer: David Pablos, based on the book by Diego Luna)
Well-paced, genuinely funny most of the time and emotionally resonant.
(Country: Canada; Year: 2015; Director: Stephen Dunn; Writer: Stephen Dunn; Stars: Connor Jessup, Aaron Abrams, Isabella Rossellini, Joanne Kelly, Aliocha Schneider, Sofia Banzhaf, Jack Fulton, Mary Walsh, Marthe Bernard, James Hawksley, Paula Morgan, Igor Pugdog, Jonathan Watton)
(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Charlie Lyne; Writer: Charlie Lyne; Stars: Rolfe Kanefsky)
Akiz has crafted a film which may fall down a little when it comes to special effects but which soars in its depiction of life on the brink.
(Country: Germany; Year: 2015; Director: Akiz; Writer: Akiz; Stars: Carolyn Genzkow, Sina Tkotsch, Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht, Arnd Klawitter, Julika Jenkins)
(Country: South Africa, France; Year: 2015; Director: Oliver Hermanus; Writer: Oliver Hermanus; Stars: Crystal-Donna Roberts, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Denise Newman, Darren Kelfkens, Carel Nel)
It is by turns sad and disturbing - with occasional bouts of highly dubious dark humour.
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Rick Alverson; Writer: Rick Alverson, Rick Alverson, Tim Heidecker, Gregg Turkington, Gregg Turkington; Stars: Michael Cera, John C. Reilly, Tye Sheridan, Lotte Verbeek, Dean Stockwell, Amy Seimetz, Tim Heidecker, Mariann Gavelo, Kalia Prescott, Tonantzin Carmelo, Waymond Lee, Gregg Turkington, David Yow, Ashley Atwood, Dustin Guy Defa)
(Country: Vietnam; Year: 2014; Director: Diep Hoang Nguyen; Stars: Thuy Anh Nguyen)
(Country: Sweden; Year: 2015; Director: Beata Gårdeler; Writer: Emma Broström; Stars: Malin Levanon, Ville Virtanen, Henrik Dorsin, Eva Melander, Jakob Öhrman, Julia Grönberg, Fatime Azemi, Ayeling Naylin, John Ristu)
(Country: Venezuela; Year: 2015; Director: Lorenzo Vigas; Writer: Guillermo Arriaga, Lorenzo Vigas, Lorenzo Vigas, Lorenzo Vigas; Stars: Alfredo Castro, Luis Silva, Jericó Montilla, Catherina Cardozo, Jorge Luis Bosque, Greymer Acosta, Auffer Camacho, Ivan Peña, Joretsis Ibarra, Yeimar Peralta, Scarlett Jaimes, Ernesto Campos, Marcos Moreno, Armando Volcanes, Jesús Las Rosas)
Quiet and unassuming yet making some devastating points, Hamaguchi's film is shot with deceptive simplicity.
(Country: Japan; Year: 2015; Director: Ryusuke Hamaguchi; Writer: Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Tadashi Nohara; Stars: Yasunobu Tanabe, Rira Kawamura, Hiromi Demura, Shuhei Shibata, Shoko Fukanaga)
(Country: Germany, Austria; Year: 2015; Director: Jakob M Erwa; Writer: Jakob M Erwa; Stars: Heike Hanold-Lynch, Ralph Kretschmar, Tatja Seibt, Hermann Beyer, Eric Bouwer, Barbara Sotelsek, Karim Cherif, Lutz Blochberger, Esther Maria Pietsch, Janusz Cichocki, Matthias Lier, Johannes Richard Voelkel, Aline Eydam, Lucia Luciano)
(Country: India; Year: 2015; Director: Bhaskar Hazarika; Writer: Bhaskar Hazarika, Arupa Patangia-Kalita; Stars: Adil Hussain, Seema Biswas, Urmila Mahanta, Zerifa Wahid, Asha Bordoloi)
Lanthimos satirises our obsession with relationships and modern day electronic dating rituals although the results are not nearly as funny and knowing as the director clearly thinks.
(Country: Greece, UK, Ireland, Netherlands, France; Year: 2015; Director: Yorgos Lanthimos; Writer: fthymis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos; Stars: Colin Farrell, Léa Seydoux, Rachel Weisz, Ben Whishaw, John C Reilly, Olivia Coleman)
(Country: Belgium; Year: 2014; Director: Gust Van Den Berghe; Writer: Gust Van Den Berghe; Stars: María Acosta, Jeronimo Soto Bravo, Norma Pablo, Gabino Rodríguez)
(Country: France; Year: 2015; Director: Merzak Allouache)
This gloomy film certainly has the power of its rage and anguish, but it could have used some restraint too.
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2015; Director: Shin Su-won; Writer: Shin Su-won; Stars: Seo Young-Hee, Byun Yo-han)
(Country: Mexico; Year: 2015; Director: Rodrigo Plá; Writer: Laura Santullo; Stars: Daniel Giménez Cacho, Emilio Echevarría, Sebastián Aguirre, Harold Torres, Marisol Centeno, Marco Antonio Aguirre, Noé Hernández, Jana Raluy, Ivan Cortes, Úrsula Pruneda, Hugo Albores)
Mascaro is completely in control of his material.
(Country: Brazil, Uruguay, Netherlands; Year: 2015; Director: Gabriel Mascaro; Writer: Gabriel Mascaro; Stars: Juliano Cazarré, Maeve Jinkings, Vinícius de Oliveira, Alyne Santana, Josinaldo Alves, Carlos Pessoa, Samya De Lavor)
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2015; Director: Natalie Cristiani; Writer: Nicola Costantino, Natalie Cristiani; Stars: Nicola Costantino)
At more than two hours long, it's a shame Beckett wasn't on hand to offer a bit of advice on the importance of distillation, although there is plenty here to enjoy.
(Country: US, UK; Year: 2015; Director: Ross Lipman; Writer: Ross Lipman; Stars: Buster Keaton, Billie Whitelaw, James Karen, Haskell Wexler, Leonard Maltin, Samuel Beckett, Boris Kaufman, Kevin Brownlow, Alan Schneider, Barney Rosset, S.E. Gontarski, Mark Nixon, Judith Douw, J. Schneider, Barnett L. Rosset)
(Country: Czechoslovakia; Year: 1953; Director: Jirí Trnka; Writer: Alois Jirásek, Jirí Brdecka, Milos Václav Kratochvíl, Jirí Trnka; Stars: Zdenek Stepánek, Eduard Kohout, Karel Höger, Rùzena Nasková, Václav Vydra)
Deftly scripted, subtle and challenging, this is a film which reminds us why Muntean is such an important contributor to the Romanian New Wave.
(Country: Romania; Year: 2015; Director: Radu Muntean; Writer: Alexandru Baciu, Radu Muntean, Razvan Radulescu; Stars: Teodor Corban, Iulian Postelnicu, Tatiana Iekel, Ionut Bora)
(Country: Argentina, Austria, Uruguay; Year: 2015; Director: Lukas Valenta Rinner; Writer: Ana Godoy, Esteban Prado, Lukas Valenta Rinner; Stars: Eva Bianco, Pablo Seijo, Martín Shanly)
(Country: China; Year: 2015; Director: Anqi Ju; Writer: Anqi Ju; Stars: Xianbo Hou)
A psychologically astute and darkly funny look at the deep bonds of female friendship and the damage that can be wrought by those closest to you.
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Alex Ross Perry; Writer: Alex Ross Perry; Stars: Elisabeth Moss, Katherine Waterston, Patrick Fugit, Kate Lyn Sheil, Kentucker Audley, Keith Poulson)
(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2015; Director: Alex van Warmerdam; Writer: Alex van Warmerdam; Stars: Tom Dewispelaere, Alex van Warmerdam, Maria Kraakman, Gene Bervoets, Annet Malherbe)
(Country: India, France; Year: 2014; Director: Partho Sen-Gupta; Writer: Yogesh Vinayak Joshi, Partho Sen-Gupta; Stars: Adil Hussain, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Gulnaaz Ansari, Komal Gupta, Esha Amlani, Ashalata Wabgaonkar, Hridaynath Jadhav, Chinmay Kambli, Nandini Bora, Komal Gawade, Ramdas Jadhav, Swapnaneel Jaykar, Tauqeer Alam Khan, Sumant Mastkar, Rakesh Mehra)
A complex film where the real story unravels in the background.
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Matt Sobel; Writer: Matt Sobel; Stars: Josh Hamilton, Robin Weigert, Azura Skye, Richard Schiff, Ursula Parker, Elizabeth Franz, Logan Miller, Ashley Gerasimovich, Seth Young, Amy Hostetler)
(Country: Russia, Ukraine, Poland; Year: 2015; Director: Aleksey German; Writer: Aleksey German; Stars: Lui Frank, Merab Ninidze, Viktoria Korotkova, Chulpan Khamatova, Piotr Gasowski)
(Country: Czech Republic, Slovak Republic,; Year: 2014; Director: Martin Štrba)
Russell takes a full-tilt approach to bringing DH Lawrence’s novel alive on screen in all its earthy, sensual – and often ludicrously overblown – glory.
(Country: UK; Year: 1969; Director: Ken Russell; Writer: Larry Kramer, based on the novel by D H Lawrence; Stars: Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed, Alan Bates, Jennie Linden, Eleanor Bron, Michael Gough, Alan Webb)
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