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Nightbitch (2024)- BFI London Film Festival 2024

Posted by Gui on November 29, 2024

Review 98min Genre:       Comedy, Drama, Horror Director:     Marielle Heller Cast:         Amy Adams, Scoot McNairy, Emmett Snowden…and more Writers:     Marielle Heller and Rachel Yoder -Synopsis- In present day American suburbia, a stay-at-home mom struggles with the pressures of parenthood and its effect on her life and career, only to unexpectedly connect with a more primal instinct […]

Anora (2024)- BFI London Film Festival 2024

Posted by Gui on October 20, 2024

Review 219min Genre:     Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance Director:   Sean Baker Cast:       Mikey Madison, Mark Eidelshtein, Karren Karagulian…and more Writers:   Sean Baker -Synopsis- A spirited young New York exotic dancer and working girl finds a seemingly fairytale way out of the sex industry when she beguiles and swiftly marries a wild and wealthy young Russian, only […]

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 […]

Annette (2021)

Posted by Gui on September 1, 2021

Review 141min Genre:       Drama, Musical, Romance Director:     Leos Carax Cast:         Adam Driver, Marion Cotillard, Simon Helberg…and more Writers:     Ron Mael and Russell Mael -Synopsis- A mysterious musical chronicle of the relationship between an intense and troubled stand-up comedian and a celebrated opera singer, whose glamorous lives are turned upside down by the arrival of […]

Another Round (2020) (Danish Language)- BFI London Film Festival 2020

Posted by Gui on November 5, 2020

Review 117min Genre:       Comedy, Drama Director:     Thomas Vinterberg Cast:         Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang…and more Writers:     Thomas Vinterberg and Tobias Lindholm -Synopsis- An indifferent, straight-laced pushover Danish high school teacher in an existential rut and his three scholarly colleagues think they have found the key to a successful and fulfilling life within […]

Marriage Story (2019)- BFI London Film Festival 2019

Posted by Gui on December 2, 2019

Review 136min Genre:       Comedy, Drama, Romance Director:    Noah Baumbach Cast:         Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver, Azhy Robertson…and more Writers:     Noah Baumbach -Synopsis- When their personal relationship breaks down as they begin to grow apart, a stage actress returns to L.A. with her young son to restart a Hollywood career, while her estranged New York theatre director […]

Animals (2019)

Posted by Gui on August 3, 2019

Review 109min Genre:       Comedy, Drama Director:    Sophie Hyde Cast:         Holliday Grainger, Alia Shawkat, Fra Fee…and more Writers:     Emma Jane Unsworth -Synopsis- When one of them becomes engaged to a responsible musician, the lives of two hard-drinking, fast-living thirty-something Dubliners are inevitably changed, as the limits of their co-dependent friendship are tested and their lifestyle choices […]

On Chesil Beach (2018)

Posted by Gui on May 20, 2018

Review 110min Genre:       Drama, Romance Director:    Dominic Cooke Cast:         Saoirse Ronan, Billy Howle, Anne-Marie Duff…and more Writer:      Ian McEwan -Synopsis- Stuck in the confines of a new marriage and a British coastal honeymoon in the early 1960s, a young couple’s idyllic romance gives way to a struggle for physical connection in emotional silence, as they […]

Loving (2016)

Posted by Gui on January 31, 2017

Review 123min Genre:         Fact-based, Drama, Romance Director:      Jeff Nichols Cast:           Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, Will Dalton…and more Writer:        Jeff Nichols -Synopsis- In late 1950s rural Virginia, Richard and Mildred Loving draw the ire of the local authorities for having the temerity to get married and live as an unassuming interracial couple. But after being charged […]