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The Whale (2022)- BFI London Film Festival 2022

Posted by Gui on October 28, 2022

Review 117min Genre:       Drama Director:     Darren Aronofsky Cast:         Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Hong Chau…and more Writers:     Samuel D. Hunter -Synopsis- Stuck in his apartment with little human contact and the scars of grief weighing him down, an ailing and obese reclusive English teacher eating himself to an early grave takes the painful step of […]

Supernova (2020)- BFI London Film Festival 2020

Posted by Gui on October 29, 2020

Review 93min Genre:       Drama, Romance Director:     Harry Macqueen Cast:         Colin Firth, Stanley Tucci, Pippa Haywood…and more Writers:     Harry Macqueen -Synopsis- A RV road trip home to rural England for a middle-age artist/intellectual long-term gay couple is made all the more precious and definitive when the one suffering with dementia begins to steadily decline, while the […]

Ammonite (2020)- BFI London Film Festival 2020

Posted by Gui on October 21, 2020

Review 120min Genre:       Drama, Fact-Based, Romance Director:     Francis Lee Cast:         Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Jones…and more Writers:     Francis Lee -Synopsis- On the Southern windswept coast of 19th century England, the solitary life of a withdrawn fossil hunter and academic is upended by the arrival of a young and melancholy gentleman’s wife who becomes […]

Kajillionaire (2020)- BFI London Film Festival 2020

Posted by Gui on October 18, 2020

Review 104min Genre:       Comedy, Crime, Drama Director:     Miranda July Cast:         Evan Rachel Wood, Gina Rodriguez, Richard Jenkins…and more Writers:     Miranda July -Synopsis- The curious life of scrounging a living on the streets of Los Angeles is thrown into turmoil for a family of con artists and petty thieves when a stranger enters the […]

Booksmart (2019)

Posted by Gui on May 28, 2019

Review 102min Genre:       Comedy Director:    Olivia Wilde Cast:         Beanie Feldstein, Kaitlyn Dever, Skyler Gisondo…and more Writers:     Susanna Fogel, Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins… and more -Synopsis- Headed to college after surviving the high school meat-grinder, a couple of academically focused and awkward best friends—determined to have fun and prove they’re more than just brains and conformity—embark […]

Rocketman (2019)

Posted by Gui on May 22, 2019

Review 121min Genre:       Fact-based, Drama, Music, Musical Director:    Dexter Fletcher Cast:         Taron Egerton, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jamie Bell…and more Writers:     Lee Hall -Synopsis- A semi-fantastical chronicle of Elton John’s breakthrough years and his transformation from shy suburban London kid to global show-stopping superstar—seen through the prism of his relationships writing partner Bernie Taupin and manager […]

120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) (2017) (French Language)- BFI London Film Festival 2017

Posted by Gui on March 28, 2018

Review 143min Genre:       Drama Director:    Robin Campillo Cast:         Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel…more Writers:     Robin Campillo and Philippe Mangeot -Synopsis- Frustrated by government inactivity over the spread of HIV in early 1990s France, a group of AIDS activists step-up their efforts and begin taking matters into their own hands, while dealing with shifting […]

Call Me by Your Name (2017)- BFI London Film Festival 2017

Posted by Gui on October 26, 2017

Review 132min Genre:       Drama, Romance Director:    Luca Guadagnino Cast:         Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg…more Writers:     James Ivory and Andre Aciman -Synopsis- During a 1980s summer in small-town northern Italy, a teenager forms a fraternal relationship with an American grad student and researcher who’s come to stay with his family of academics—but this seasonal bond […]