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Bardo (or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths) (Spanish Language) (2022)- BFI London Film Festival 2022

Posted by Gui on December 11, 2022

Review 161min Genre:       Comedy, Drama Director:     Alejandro G. Iñárritu Cast:         Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani, Íker Sánchez Solano… Writers:     Nicolás Giacobone and Alejandro G. Iñárritu -Synopsis- A Mexican filmmaker/journalist who made his name with acclaimed socially-conscious work has his identity challenged and is plunged into an existential crisis upon his celebratory return home after 20 […]

The Wonder (2022)- BFI London Film Festival 2022

Posted by Gui on November 4, 2022

Review 103min Genre:       Drama, Mystery, Thriller Director:     Sebastián Lelio Cast:         Florence Pugh, Kíla Lord Cassidy, Tom Burke…and more Writers:     Emma Donoghue, Sebastián Lelio and Alice Birch -Synopsis- A pragmatic English nurse with a painful past is sent to an Irish village in the mid-1800s tasked with observation of a special patient, which soon turns into […]

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 […]

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)- BFI London Film Festival 2022

Posted by Gui on October 23, 2022

Review 139min Genre:       Comedy, Crime, Mystery Director:     Rian Johnson Cast:         Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe…and more Writers:     Rian Johnson -Synopsis- A mysterious invitation brings renowned detective ‘Benoit Blanc’ and a rag-tag group of “disruptors” to a luxurious coastal getaway and the Greek private island home of a tech billionaire, where a seemingly friendly […]

The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)- BFI London Film Festival 2022

Posted by Gui on October 18, 2022

Review 109min Genre:       Comedy, Drama Director:     Martin McDonagh Cast:         Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon…and more Writers:     Martin McDonagh -Synopsis- A lifelong friendship on an isolated island off the Irish coast is unexpectedly ended when one shuns the other for an incomprehensible reason, and the other refuses to accept it, leading to a feud which […]

BFI London Film Festival 2022

Posted by Gui on October 17, 2022

After two of the most disruptive years in the history of a film industry still in flux and the success of a streamlined hybrid event last year, cinema once again returned en force to “The Big Smoke” and beyond, courtesy of the the British Film Institute (BFI) in the form of the 66th London Film […]

White Noise (2022)- BFI London Film Festival 2022

Posted by Gui on October 14, 2022

Review 136min Genre:       Comedy, Drama, Thriller Director:     Noah Baumbach Cast:         Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Raffey Cassidy…and more Writers:     Noah Baumbach and Don DeLillo -Synopsis- A quirky academic and his anxious wife struggle to lead their paranoid young family through the turmoil of everyday life in suburban 1980s America, only to be forced onto a […]

Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical (2022)- BFI London Film Festival 2022

Posted by Gui on October 10, 2022

Review 117min Genre:       Comedy, Family, Musical Director:     Matthew Warchus Cast:         Alisha Weir, Lashana Lynch, Emma Thompson…and more Writers:     Dennis Kelly and Roald Dahl -Synopsis- Sent by her spiteful neglectful parents to a notorious school run by a monstrous headmistress with an iron fist, a young English girl genius is nurtured by a loving teacher and […]

Holy Spider (2022) (Persian Language)- BFI London Film Festival 2022

Posted by Gui on October 7, 2022

Review 116min Genre:       Crime, Drama, Thriller Director:     Ali Abbasi Cast:         Zar Amir-Ebrahimi, Mehdi Bajestani, Arash Ashtiani…and more Writers:     Ali Abbasi and Afshin Kamran Bahrami -Synopsis- In the streets of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad, a dogged female journalist plunges into the dark underbelly of society to track down an elusive serial killer preying on […]