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New York Film Festival

28 September – 14 October 2018

Centrepiece gala Roma
Centrepiece gala Roma

The 56th edition of the festival took place from September 28 to October 14. The festival opened with The Favourite and closed with At Eternity's Gate. The Centrepiece Gala was Roma.

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  • Happy As Lazzaro
    Review preview for Happy As Lazzaro

    Newcomer Tardiolo is splendid in the lead.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A young nobleman asks a peasant to help fake his own kidnapping.
  • In My Room
    Review preview for In My Room

    Patrick Orth's cinematography gives this a beguiling warmth but it's really Löw's performance that makes it work.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A bored man suddenly realises that everyone around him has disappeared and he isn't sure what happened.
  • Be Natural: The Untold Story Of Alice Guy-Blaché
    Review preview for Be Natural: The Untold Story Of Alice Guy-Blaché

    Green's richly detailed documentary is a portrait of a remarkable woman, a love letter to early cinema and a fascinating detective story all in one.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    Documentary about the first woman director, producer and director of a studio in the history of cinema.
  • Angels Are Made Of Light
    Review preview for Angels Are Made Of Light

    There's a constant sense that war might return, a sense of urgency about cramming as much knowledge and wisdom as possible into the children before it's too late.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Documentary tracking schoolchildren growing up in Kabul over a period of years.
  • Asako I & II
    Review preview for Asako I & II

    Higashide will no doubt attract most attention, impressive in his ability to inhabit two very different characters, yet it's Karata who is the power at the heart of the film.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    Asako is a 21-year-old woman, living in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku who has a free spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears. Two years later, Asako now lives in Tokyo and she meets Ryohei. He looks just like her ex-boyfriend Baku, but he has a completely different personality.
  • Transit
    Review preview for Transit

    Time and place hold both no and every meaning in Christian Petzold's latest film.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Georg flees to Marseilles to escape the German army. Assuming a false identity, he tries to obtain passage on a ship bound for Mexico. But then he meets Marie and his plans change.
  • What You Gonna Do When The World's On Fire?
    Review preview for What You Gonna Do When The World's On Fire?

    While content is important, it is context that is king in a documentary, and this film could do with a lot more of it to orient viewers, especially those who don't have a full working knowledge of the American South.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    The story of a community of black people in the American South during the summer 2017, when a string of brutal killings of black men sent shockwaves throughout the country.
  • Carmine Street Guitars
    Review preview for Carmine Street Guitars

    Becky Parsons and John M Tran's cinematography brings out every detail of the crowded rooms before us and puts us to close to the grain of the wood that we can almost smell it.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A shop resisting gentrification.
  • At Eternity's Gate
    Review preview for At Eternity's Gate

    For those who know and love Van Gogh's work, the effect is hypnotic, a translation of his vision into a new medium.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    The last days of Vincent van Gogh.
  • If Beale Street Could Talk
    Review preview for If Beale Street Could Talk

    A powerful condemnation of endemic and structural racism, a sweet love story and, at a technical level, a beautifully produced film, If Beale Street Could Talk has much to recommend it.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A pregnant woman tries to prove her lover's innocence.

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