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New York Film Festival

24 September – 10 October 2021

A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces
A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces

The 59th edition of NYFF will run from September 24 to October 10 and will feature in-person screenings, as well as select outdoor and virtual events. The festival will open with The Tragedy Of Macbeth and close with Parallel Mothers.

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  • Vortex
    Review preview for Vortex

    The most restrained and yet audacious, unadorned and still intelligent picture the Argentinian auteur has made.

    Levan Tskhovrebadze · 4 out of 5
    Drama focused on a handful of dark days in the lives of an elderly couple in Paris.
  • Hit The Road
    Review preview for Hit The Road

    Panahi and his actors shift through emotions so smoothly, you barely notice them until they have immersed you.

    Amber Wilkinson · 5 out of 5
    Drama based around a road trip in a borrowed car.
  • Il Buco
    Review preview for Il Buco

    The group of speleologists in Il Buco are housed in the storage room of a church, a sublime decision by the filmmakers that gives Berta ample opportunity to visually connect the scientists of the early Sixties with the splendour of Renaissance paintings.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    Drama based on the true adventures of a group of young speleologists who in 1961 descended into a hole in the mountains of Calabria to explore what was then the third-deepest known cave on Earth.
  • The Tale Of King Crab
    Review preview for The Tale Of King Crab

    The use of traditional folk song and the fact that the language shifts from Italian to Spanish also highlights the way that stories are passed from mouth to ear down the generations and across borders.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Italy, today. Some elderly hunters reminisce about the tale of Luciano - a drunk who locks horns with the head of the region over right of passage and is later exiled.
  • Neptune Frost
    Review preview for Neptune Frost

    Set in a futuristic Rwanda, the themes are as old as the hills - with colonialism, identity and self-determination chief among them.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    The love story between an African intersex runaway and a coltan miner, and the virtual marvel born as a result of their union.
  • Red Rocket
    Review preview for Red Rocket

    The grooming of Strawberry may have some moments of levity but that, in many ways, makes it all the more uncomfortable.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A washed-up ex-porn star tries to get his life back together in his hometown, sparking trouble for those in his orbit.
  • Bergman Island
    Review preview for Bergman Island

    The film unfolds at an easy pace, Hansen-Løve making everything matter of fact and yet beguiling, thereby softening viewers up to accept the fantastic or surreal aspects of the narrative as normal.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    An American filmmaking couple retreat to the island for the summer to write screenplays for their upcoming films in an act of pilgrimage to the place that inspired Bergman. As the summer and their screenplays advance, the lines between reality and fiction start to blur against the backdrop of the island's wild landscape.
  • Belle
    Review preview for Belle

    This is a triumph of design.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    The story of a shy teenager who becomes an online sensation as a princess of pop.
  • The Souvenir: Part II
    Review preview for The Souvenir: Part II

    Hogg has always had an eye for architectural as well as emotional spaces and we see it here, as she floods the large rooms of Julie's parents' home with light, so that she almost seems to be paling out of them, which, coupled with her often silent reactions as others babble around her makes it seem as though she is the one who might be the ghost.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction.
  • The Worst Person In The World
    Review preview for The Worst Person In The World

    There is a lingering, half blossomed melancholy that lies underneath the often very funny, fast-paced moments of quotidian chaos.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
    Four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.

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