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New York Film Festival

27 September – 13 October 2019

The Irishman opened the festival
The Irishman opened the festival

The 57th edition of the New York Film Festival ran from September 27 to October 13, 2019. It opened with the world premiere of Martin Scorsese's The Irishman and closed with Edward Norton's Motherless Brooklyn.

The centre-piece gala was Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story.

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  • State Funeral
    Review preview for State Funeral

    What the cumulative effect of masterfully restored newsreel may lack in action, it more than makes up for with the numbing, slow-burn sensation of being drawn under the spell of state-orchestrated mass mourning.

    Matthew Anderson · 4 out of 5
    Documentary based on footage from March 5 - 9, 1953, when the USSR mourned and buried Joseph Stalin.
  • First Cow
    Review preview for First Cow

    The simplest of pleasures bring the greatest moments of joy in Reichardt’s latest film.

    Matthew Anderson · 4.5 out of 5
    A cook with a group of fur trappers strikes up a connection with a Chinese emigre in the Old West.
  • Martin Eden
    Review preview for Martin Eden

    Luca Marinelli is excellent in the lead, balancing intensity with intelligence, convincing at every stage of Martin's journey.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    A man struggles to better his circumstances, motivated by his love for a woman from a bourgeois family.
  • My Father And Me
    Review preview for My Father And Me

    An intimate story of a relationship between a son and his father, a personal documentary, therapeutic session and a memento for British history.

    Mateusz Tarwacki · 4 out of 5
    The filmmaker charts his relationship with his humanist-pacifist father, Maurice Broomfield, a factory worker turned photographer.
  • Born To Be
    Review preview for Born To Be

    Born To Be is an important contribution to public understanding.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Documentary, charting the emotional and physical journey of surgical transitioning, as experienced by patients at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital.
  • To The Ends Of The Earth
    Review preview for To The Ends Of The Earth

    Former pop star Atsuko Maeda is wonderful in the lead, the perfect match for Kurosawa's style, communicating volumes with the most delicate of expressions.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A Japanese TV host finds a trip to Uzbekistan to shoot an episode of her reality travel show begins to dissolve her chipper persona.
  • Liberté
    Review preview for Liberté

    Serra turns to period pieces not out of nostalgia, but quite the contrary, to provoke and dismantle - a grotesque imagery looking to alter the often sublime portrayal of such figures.

    Georgiana Musat · 4 out of 5
    A group of 18th century libertines are expelled from court and wander in the forests, seeking asylum.
  • The Booksellers
    Review preview for The Booksellers

    This is an immersive tour of bookselling and collecting that breezes along as pleasantly as a beach read, while still carrying with it chapter and verse.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A tour of New York’s book world, past and present.
  • Bitter Bread
    Review preview for Bitter Bread

    This is a bald recording of the lives being lived and the stoicism needed to keep going even in these most grim of circumstances.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Documentary about a community of refugees living in a tent camp in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley.
  • The Whistlers
    Review preview for The Whistlers

    The whistling language is fun - and, if anything, disappointingly underused - but it's the language of cinema that Porumboiu is really interested in.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Film noir sees a corrupt cop learn a whistling language to beat detection while trying to double-cross the mob.

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