London Film Festival · 2023
11 films · 5 reviews
The aerial shots of the forest and the believable transformations with feathers, wings, beaks and claws as well as fish scales, make for riveting viewing.
(Country: France; Year: 2023; Director: Thomas Cailley; Writer: Thomas Cailley; Stars: Adèle Exarchopoulos, Romain Duris, Paul Kircher)
(Country: India; Year: 2023; Director: Hansal Mehta; Writer: Aseem Arrora, Raghav Raj Kakker, Kashyap Kapoor; Stars: Kareena Kapoor, Keith Allen, Chris Wilson, Haqi Ali, Daniel Eghan, Ash Tandon, Joel Morris, Adwoa Akoto, Rukku Nahar, Lee Nicholas Harris, Jonathan Nyati, Assad Raja, Stuart Whelan, Asheq Akhtar, Charles Craddock)
As Copa 71 goes on to show, it’s not the players that are the problem but the lack of a level playing field.
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: James Erskine, Rachel Ramsay; Writer: James Erskine, Victoria Gregory, Rachel Ramsay; Stars: Brandi Chastain, Alex Morgan, Jose Palma)
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: J Blakeson; Writer: J Blakeson, Nadia Latif; Stars: Ned Dennehy, Kirby, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Baeyen Hoffman, Maria Nash, Mark Field, Grant Masters, Jayden Kirton, Jonathan Ojinnaka, Gemma Arterton, Niamh Algar, Eddie Izzard, Amy Keating, Laura Morgan, Kosha Engler)
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: George Amponsah; Writer: Archie Maddocks, Taz Skylar; Stars: Stephen Odubola, Taz Skylar, Craige Middleburg, Steve Toussaint, Jelena Gavrilovic, Mohammed Mansaray, Tobias Jowett, Tomi May, Ben Shafik, Mae Muller, Rawdat Quadri, Harry Pinero, Tim Chipping, Aaron-Jon North, Isabella Domville)
(Country: Mexico, Netherlands, Germany; Year: 2023; Director: Amat Escalante; Writer: Amat Escalante, Martín Escalante, Paulina Mendoza; Stars: Juan Daniel García Treviño, Ester Expósito, Bárbara Mori, Fernando Bonilla, Jero Medina, Vicky Araico, Mayra Hermosillo)
(Country: Italy, Switzerland; Year: 2023; Director: Giorgio Diritti; Writer: Mario Cavatore, Giorgio Diritti, Fredo Valla, Tania Pedroni; Stars: Franz Rogowski, Valentina Bellè, Joel Basman, Noémi Besedes, Cecilia Steiner, Philippe Graber, Francesco Limenta, Christian Bianco, Oliver Ewy, Christophe Sermet, Federica Garavaglia, Jörg Reichlin, Alessandro Zappella, Filippo Giulini, Anina Sara Baumgartner)
No matter that the plot development is deliberately murky, it’s the mood that catches you in its tides.
(Country: China; Year: 2023; Director: Shujun Wei; Writer: Chunlei Kang, Shujun Wei, based on the story by Hua Yu; Stars: Yilong Zhu, Chloe Maayan, Tianlai Hou, Tong Lin Kai, Han Chen, Chunlei Kang)
(Country: Sweden, Malta; Year: 2023; Director: Axel Petersén; Writer: Axel Petersén; Stars: Joel Spira, Christopher Wagelin, Julia Sporre, Jacqueline Ramel, Owen Sciriha, Tommy Nilsson, Michal Axel Piotrowski, Erica Muscat, Susanne Barklund, Frida Cauchi, Marcus Vögeli, Becky Camilleri, Taryn Butler, Massimo P Morana, Isaac Borg)
Tejpal’s debut may be uneven but it's certainly not short of momentum.
(Country: India; Year: 2023; Director: Karan Tejpal; Writer: Agadbumb, Gourav Dhingra, Karan Tejpal; Stars: Abhishek Banerjee, Sahidur Rahaman, Mia Maelzer, Harish Khanna, Shubham, Ankit Sain)
Turestedt is excellent and very watchable.
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Caroline Ingvarsson; Writer: Michèle Marshall, Håkan Nesser; Stars: Anna Próchniak, Thomas W. Gabrielsson, Mirja Turestedt, Kris Hitchen, Ia Langhammer, Sven Ahlström, Andrzej Konopka, Marta Zmuda Trzebiatowska, Michèle Marshall, David Fukamachi Regnfors, David Bromley, Michal Ochocki, Anna Terpilowska, Tatiana Zlotowicz)
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