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London Film Festival · 2020

London Film Festival 2020

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8 films · 4 reviews

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Bad Tales (Favolacce)

Review preview for Bad Tales

The D'Innocenzos let the mood do the heavy lifting, stewing us along with the families.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
Trouble brews over a long hot summer on the outskirts of Rome.

(Country: Italy, Switzerland; Year: 2020; Director: Damiano D'Innocenzo, Fabio D'Innocenzo; Writer: Damiano D'Innocenzo, Fabio D'Innocenzo; Stars: Elio Germano, Barbara Chichiarelli, Gabriel Montesi, Max Malatesta, Ileana D'Ambra, Lino Musella, Massimiliano Tortora, Barbara Ronchi, Sara Bertelà, Justin Korovkin, Cristina Pellegrino, Giulia Melillo, Giulietta Rebeggiani, Federico Majorana, Giulia Galiani)

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A Common Crime (Un crimen común)

One night, Cecilia is too afraid to open the door to her housekeeper’s son. The next day, his dead body is found.

(Country: Argentina; Year: 2020; Director: Francisco Márquez; Writer: Tomás Downey, Francisco Márquez; Stars: Elisa Carricajo, Mecha Martinez, Eliot Otazo, Ciro Coien Pardo, Cecilia Rainero, Elisa Carricajo, Mecha Martinez, Eliot Otazo, Ciro Coien Pardo, Cecilia Rainero)

The Intruder

After a traumatic episode, a woman starts to find it hard to distinguish between what is real and what is imaginary.

(Country: Argentina, Mexico; Year: 2020; Director: Natalia Meta; Writer: Natalia Meta; Stars: Cecilia Roth, Erica Rivas, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Daniel Hendler, Mirta Busnelli, Agustín Rittano, Guillermo Arengo, Cecilia Roth, Erica Rivas, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Daniel Hendler, Mirta Busnelli, Agustín Rittano, Guillermo Arengo)

Mogul Mowgli

Review preview for Mogul Mowgli

Rap is a rapid-fire art form, washing you in a torrent of thoughts, the beat carrying you through, and Tariq's film has a similar approach, but there are so many ideas being fired out that it's no wonder it sometimes struggles to retain its rhythm.

Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
Zed, a British rapper, is about to start his first world tour when a crippling illness strikes him down and he has to move back in with his parents. He tries to find himself between an international music career and Pakistani family traditions.

(Country: UK, US; Year: 2020; Director: Bassam Tariq; Writer: Riz Ahmed, Bassam Tariq; Stars: Riz Ahmed, Aiysha Hart, Nabhaan Rizwan, Kiran Sonia Sawar, Anjana Vasan, Alyy Khan, Jill Buchanan, Abdul Hakim Joy, Sudha Bhuchar, Jag Patel, Ali Barouti, Jeff Mirza, Eva Von Mitzka, Olivia Brady, Khariis Ubiaro)

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New Order (Nuevo Orden)

A lavish upper-class wedding goes awry in an unexpected uprising of class warfare that gives way to a violent coup d’etat.

(Country: Mexico; Year: 2020; Director: Michel Franco; Writer: Michel Franco; Stars: Diego Boneta, Dario Yazbek Bernal, Naian González Norvind, Gustavo Sánchez Parra, Lisa Owen, Javier Sepulveda, Mónica Del Carmen, Sebastian Silveti, Patricia Bernal, Roberto Medina, Eligio Meléndez, Analy Castro, Enrique Singer, Fernando Cuautle, Diego Boneta)

Shirley

Review preview for Shirley

Before, it often felt as though Decker was drifting off onto self-indulgent tangents but her latest feels much more under control, with those tangents are a fully fledged part of the portrait.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
A young couple moves in with the famed author, Shirley Jackson, and her Bennington College professor husband, Stanley Hyman, in the hope of starting a new life but instead find themselves fodder for a psycho-drama that inspires Shirley's next novel.

(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Josephine Decker; Writer: Sarah Gubbins, Susan Scarf Merrell; Stars: Elisabeth Moss, Logan Lerman, Michael Stuhlbarg, Odessa Young, Margarita Allen, Steve Vinovich, Ryan Spahn, Lexa Hayes, Adelind Horan, Molly Fahey, Allen McCullough, Thomas Racek, Edward O'Blenis, Emily Decker, Tony Manna)

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Siberia

Review preview for Siberia

A film that is entirely built on moments and glimpses.

Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
A broken man flees the world and finds himself in a cave. His escape becomes a radical confrontation with his dreams, his memories and demonic visions.

(Country: Italy, Germany, Mexico; Year: 2020; Director: Abel Ferrara; Writer: Abel Ferrara, Christ Zois; Stars: Willem Dafoe, Dounia Sichov, Simon McBurney, Cristina Chiriac, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Fabio Pagano, Anna Ferrara, Phil Neilson, Laurent Arnatsiaq, Valentina Rozumenko, Trish Osmond, Stella Pecollo, Willem Dafoe, Dounia Sichov, Simon McBurney)

Full review See: Abel Ferrara in conversation on Siberia, Willem Dafoe and his latest projects , Abel Ferrara in conversation on Abel Ferrara’s Cinema Village, Willem Dafoe, Siberia and more

Wildfire

When a woman who was missing, presumed dead, returns home, the bond with her sister intensifies.

(Country: UK, Ireland; Year: 2020; Director: Cathy Brady; Writer: Cathy Brady; Stars: Martin McCann, Nora-Jane Noone, David Pearse, Aiste Gramantaite, Joanne Crawford, Toni O'Rourke, Helen Behan, Nika McGuigan, Olga Wehrly, Uriel Emil, Damien Hannaway, Maura Foley, Richard Nester, Corey Millar, John Paul O'Driscoll)