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The Apprentice (2024)- BFI London Film Festival 2024

Posted by Gui on October 26, 2024

Review 122min Genre:       Fact-based, Drama Director:     Ali Abbasi Cast:         Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong, Maria Bakalova…and more Writers:     Gabriel Sherman -Synopsis- In the 1970s through the ’80s, a young Donald Trump’s star rises through New York real estate and beyond as his personality and life ethos is shaped by his close relationship with a questionable mentor—US […]

Oppenheimer (2023)

Posted by Gui on July 28, 2023

Review 180min Genre:       Fact-based, Drama, War Director:     Christopher Nolan Cast:         Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr.…and more Writers:     Christopher Nolan, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin -Synopsis- An American physicist at the height of World War II reluctantly becomes the destroyer of worlds as his relentless drive to beat the Nazis in the development […]

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 […]

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Writers:     Francis Lee -Synopsis- On the Southern windswept coast of 19th century England, the solitary life of a withdrawn fossil hunter and academic is upended by the arrival of a young and melancholy gentleman’s wife who becomes […]

Le Mans ’66 (2019)- BFI London Film Festival 2019

Posted by Gui on November 11, 2019

Review 152min Genre:     Fact-based, Action, Drama, Sport Director:  James Mangold Cast:       Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Caitriona Balfe…and more Writers:   Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth and Jason Keller -Synopsis- Determined to dethrone the dominant Ferrari team at the 1966 24 Hours Le Mans race, automotive designer and engineer Carroll Shelby teams up with indomitable driver Ken Miles […]

JoJo Rabbit (2019)- BFI London Film Festival 2019

Posted by Gui on October 18, 2019

Review 108min Genre:     Comedy, Drama, War Director:  Taika Waititi Cast:       Roman Griffin Davis, Scarlett Johansson, Taika Waititi… more Writers:   Taika Waititi and Christine Leunens -Synopsis- In the final days of Nazi Germany, a young boy deals with childhood strife and his struggles in the Hitler youth by turning to his imaginary friend and constant companion—Adolf […]

The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019)- BFI London Film Festival 2019

Posted by Gui on October 11, 2019

Review 119min Genre:      Comedy, Drama Director:   Armando Iannucci Cast:        Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie…and more Writers:    Armando Iannucci, Simon Blackwell and Charles Dickens -Synopsis- When his idyllic country childhood is abruptly ended by tragedy and the arrival of a callous step-family, an aspiring young author is bludgeoned by the harsh realities of life and […]

Waiting for the Barbarians (2019)- BFI London Film Festival 2019

Posted by Gui on October 7, 2019

Review 112min Genre:     Drama Director:   Ciro Guerra Cast:       Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, Gana Bayarsaikhan…and more Writers:   J.M. Coetzee -Synopsis- On the edge of an unspecified foreign empire, a magistrate at a remote desert outpost begins to have a crisis of conscience when the brutal treatment of the bordering nomadic ‘barbarians’, and his role in it, […]

The White Crow (2019) (Russian & English Language)

Posted by Gui on March 21, 2019

Review 127min Genre:     Fact-based, Drama Director:  Ralph Fiennes Cast:       Oleg Ivenko, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Ralph Fiennes…and more Writers:   David Hare and Julie Kavanagh… and more -Synopsis- A chronicle of the makings of Siberian ballet legend Rudolf Nureyev and the difficult non-conformist personality which forged a standout artist—from his youth in Russia through to his time performing […]

Colette (2018)

Posted by Gui on January 9, 2019

Review 111min Genre:       Fact-based, Drama Director:    Wash Westmoreland Cast:         Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Denise Gough…and more Writers:     Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland & Rebecca Lenkiewicz -Synopsis- Coming of age in turn-of-the century France through her marriage to a writer-impresario who takes credit for her work, a country girl becomes the toast of the town when her […]

The Favourite (2018)- BFI London Film Festival 2018

Posted by Gui on December 31, 2018

Review 119min Genre:       Fact-based, Comedy, Drama Director:    Yorgos Lanthimos Cast:         Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz…and more Writers:     Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara -Synopsis- Early 18th century England and the reign of an ailing Queen Anne, defined by increasingly bizarre behaviour and her relationship with influential confidante Duchess Sarah Churchill, whose distant cousin arrives to […]

Outlaw King (2018)- BFI London Film Festival 2018

Posted by Gui on November 7, 2018

Review 121min Genre:     Fact-based, Drama, War Director:  David Mackenzie Cast:       Chris Pine, Florence Pugh, Stephen Dillane…and more Writers:   David Mackenzie, Bathsheba Doran, James MacInnes… and more -Synopsis- Reeling from personal tragedy and the oppression of 14th century English occupation, nobleman Robert the Bruce seizes his destiny as king of the Scots and begins a daring […]

Peterloo (2018)- BFI London Film Festival 2018

Posted by Gui on November 1, 2018

Review 154min Genre:     Fact-based, Drama Director:  Mike Leigh Cast:       Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Neil Bell…and more Writer:    Mike Leigh -Synopsis- In early 19th century England at the end of the Napoleonic wars, the hungry and poor of Manchester gather to protest and demand universal suffrage, only to be stormed by the overzealous military and suffer […]

Shadow (2018) (Mandarin Language)- BFI London Film Festival 2018

Posted by Gui on October 12, 2018

Review 116min Genre:     Action , Drama, War Director:  Zhang Yimou Cast:       Deng Chao, Sun Li, Zheng Ryan…and more Writers:   Li Wei and Zhang Yimou -Synopsis- At the end of the ‘Three Kingdom’s’ era in warring third century China, an arrogant young king languishes on the throne of Pei and holds to a peace accord, putting […]

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 […]

Entebbe (2018)

Posted by Gui on May 11, 2018

Review 107min Genre:     Fact-based, Crime, Drama Director:  José Padilha Cast:       Daniel Brühl, Rosamund Pike, Eddie Marsan…and more Writer:    Gregory Burke -Synopsis- In the summer of 1976, two Palestinian extremists and two German ones hijack a plane and take the passengers hostage, forcing it to land in Idi Amin’s Uganda in a bid to further their […]

Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

Posted by Gui on November 3, 2017

Review 114min Genre:     Crime, Drama, Mystery Director:  Kenneth Branagh Cast:       Kenneth Branagh, Michelle Pfeiffer, Johnny Depp…and more Writers:   Michael Green and Agatha Christie -Synopsis- When someone mysteriously dies on the world renown luxury train travelling across Europe, fellow passenger and legendary detective ‘Hercule Poirot’ must unravel a mystery which will test his moral compass and […]

Blade of the Immortal (2017) (Japanese Language)

Posted by Gui on October 14, 2017

Review 140min Genre:     Action, Adventure, Drama Director:  Takashi Miike Cast:       Takuya Kimura, Hana Sugisaki, Sôta Fukushi…and more Writers:   Hiroaki Samura and Tetsuya Oishi -Synopsis- In the hope of regaining his soul and finally achieving inner peace, a skilled but cursed and cranky immortal Samurai agrees to help a young girl avenge her parents, murdered by […]

Breathe (2017)- BFI London Film Festival 2017

Posted by Gui on October 6, 2017

Review 117min Genre:     Fact-based, Drama, Romance Director:  Andy Serkis Cast:       Andrew Garfield, Claire Foy, Tom Hollander…and more Writer:    William Nicholson -Synopsis- When adventurous British soul Robin Cavendish is struck down and paralysed by polio while in Africa, he relies on his loyal and determined wife Diana to not only survive but truly live, becoming a […]

The Limehouse Golem (2017)

Posted by Gui on September 1, 2017

Review 109min Genre:       Drama, Mystery, Thriller Director:    Juan Carlos Medina Cast:         Bill Nighy, Olivia Cooke, Douglas Booth…and more Writers:     Peter Ackroyd & Jane Goldman -Synopsis- Before ‘Jack the Ripper’ stalked the seedy streets of London, another brutal and mysterious spectre plied its sinister trade in the East end— the infamous and mythical ‘Limehouse Golem’—preying on […]

Detroit (2017)

Posted by Gui on August 24, 2017

Review 143min Genre:       Fact-based, Crime, Drama Director:    Kathryn Bigelow Cast:         John Boyega, Algee Smith, Will Poulter…and more Writer:      Mark Boal -Synopsis- With tensions running high between the people and the authorities of Detroit in 1967, a police raid sparks an all-out uprising and borderline race riot as the disparate citizens of the city endure five […]

The Beguiled (2017)

Posted by Gui on July 18, 2017

Review 93min Genre:       Drama Director:    Sofia Coppola Cast:         Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst…and more Writers:     Thomas Cullinan, Sofia Coppola, Albert Maltz… and more -Synopsis- When the ladies & girls of an isolated all-female boarding school in the American South take in and care for an injured enemy Union soldier during the American civil war, […]

Churchill (2017)

Posted by Gui on June 18, 2017

Review 105min Genre:      Fact-based, Drama, War Director:   Jonathan Teplitzky Cast:        Brian Cox, Miranda Richardson, John Slattery…and more Writer:     Alex von Tunzelmann -Synopsis- In the days leading up to D-Day and the Allied invasion of occupied France, British prime minister Winston Churchill clashes with the military brass in his opposition to the Normandy landings, as the […]

My Cousin Rachel (2017)

Posted by Gui on June 11, 2017

Review 106min Genre:      Drama, Mystery, Romance Director:   Roger Michell Cast:        Sam Claflin, Rachel Weisz, Iain Glen… and more Writers:    Daphne Du Maurier and Roger Michell -Synopsis- When ‘Philip’s’ wealthy cousin and guardian suspiciously dies while abroad after unexpectedly marrying their beautiful distant cousin ‘Rachel’, the young Englishman becomes caught between his suspicions of her involvement […]

Lady Macbeth (2017)

Posted by Gui on April 30, 2017

Review 89min Genre:       Drama Director:    William Oldroyd Cast:         Florence Pugh, Christopher Fairbank, Cosmo Jarvis…and more Writers:     Nikolai Leskov and Alice Birch -Synopsis- Bought and effectively held prisoner by her domineering new older husband and his equally imposing father at their rural English estate, a young bride boldly breaks free of her chains and gives in […]

Rules Don’t Apply (2016)

Posted by Gui on April 20, 2017

Review 127min Genre:       Comedy, Drama, Romance Director:    Warren Beatty Cast:         Lily Collins, Alden Ehrenreich, Warren Beatty…and more Writers:     Warren Beatty and Bo Goldman -Synopsis- Warren Beatty returns to the director’s chair after almost 20 years, while also writing and starring in this ‘Golden Age Hollywood’ comedy/drama about the romance which blossoms between two wide-eyed youngsters, […]

The Handmaiden (2016) (Korean & Japanese Language)

Posted by Gui on April 13, 2017

Review 144min Genre:     Drama, Mystery, Romance Director:  Park Chan-wook Cast:       Kim Min-hee, Kim Tae-ri, Ha Jung-woo…and more Writers:   Jeong Seo-kyeong, Park Chan-wook and Sarah Waters -Synopsis- Acclaimed South Korean writer/director Park Chan-wook’s (Oldboy, Thirst) sexually charged period drama set in early 20th-century occupied Korea, where a young Korean woman’s plan to defraud a beautiful Japanese heiress […]

Jackie (2016)

Posted by Gui on January 20, 2017

Review 100min Genre:       Fact-based, Drama Director:    Pablo Larraín Cast:         Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Billy Crudup…and more Writer:      Noah Oppenheim -Synopsis- Natalie Portman stars as former American first lady Jacqueline Kennedy in the aftermath of the JFK assassination, struggling to keep her family together while protecting the legacy of her late husband in this biographical drama […]

Silence (2017)

Posted by Gui on January 6, 2017

Review 161min Genre:       Drama Director:    Martin Scorsese Cast:         Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Liam Neeson…and more Writers:     Shûsaku Endô, Jay Cocks and Martin Scorsese -Synopsis- When two 17th century Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan on mission to determine the fate of their fallen mentor and spread the faith, they encounter open hostility and face persecution […]

Their Finest (2017)- BFI London Film Festival 2016

Posted by Gui on October 19, 2016

110min Genre:      Comedy, Drama, Romance, War Director:   Lone Scherfig Cast:        Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin, Bill Nighy…and more Writers:    Gaby Chiappe and Lissa Evans -Synopsis- British World War II dramedy starring Gemma Arterton as a London-based young Welsh writer in 1940, whose life is transformed when she’s hired by the UK government and the British film […]

Anthropoid (2016)

Posted by Gui on September 11, 2016

Review 120min Genre:       Fact-based, Drama, Thriller, War Director:    Sean Ellis Cast:         Cillian Murphy, Jamie Dornan, Charlotte Le Bon…and more Writers:     Sean Ellis and Anthony Frewin -Synopsis- World War II period thriller based on the events of operation “Anthropoid”; a British SOE plan to use Czechoslovak resistance agents to infiltrate occupied Prague and assassinate Reinhard Heydrich; […]

Ben-Hur (2016)

Posted by Gui on September 8, 2016

Review 123min Genre:     Action, Adventure, Drama Director:  Timur Bekmambetov Cast:       Jack Huston, Toby Kebbell, Morgan Freeman…and more Writers:   Lew Wallace, Keith R. Clarke and John Ridley -Synopsis- In 1st century Jerusalem, a Jewish prince is made a slave after his family are betrayed by their adoptive Roman brother; but festering hatred sends him on a […]

Café Society (2016)

Posted by Gui on September 4, 2016

Review 96min Genre:      Comedy, Romance Director:   Woody Allen Cast:        Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Steve Carell…and more Writer:     Woody Allen -Synopsis- A wide-eyed, awkward young New Yorker moves to Los Angeles to try and find a place alongside his big-shot movie agent uncle, among the glitz & glamour of 1930s Hollywood; only to be caught up […]

The Revenant (2016) (English Language)

Posted by Gui on January 15, 2016

Review 156min Genre:     Fact-based, Adventure, Drama, Thriller Director:  Alejandro González Iñárritu Cast:       Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson…and more Writers:   Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mark L. Smith & Michael Punke Oscar-winning writer/director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s semi-biographical survival drama set in the unforgiving 19th century American frontier, starring  Leonardo DiCaprio as Hugh Glass, a fur trapper on […]

The Danish Girl (2015) (English Language)

Posted by Gui on January 2, 2016

Review 120min Genre:      Fact-based, Drama, Romance Director:   Tom Hooper Cast:        Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Amber Heard…and more Writers:    Lucinda Coxon & David Ebershoff -Synopsis- Transgender period drama about the unconventional love story of married Danish artists in early 20th century Europe, who struggle to cope with the husband’s transition into one of the earliest identified […]

Carol (2015) (English Language)

Posted by Gui on December 3, 2015

118min Genre:      Drama, Romance Director:   Todd Haynes Cast:        Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Kyle Chandler…and more Writers:    Phyllis Nagy and Patricia Highsmith -Synopsis- Stylish period drama set in 1950s New York starring Cate Blanchett as a well-to-do woman in a troubled marriage who develops a romantic relationship with a unique young department store clerk, a forbidden […]

Crimson Peak (2015) (English Language)

Posted by Gui on October 17, 2015

Review 119min Genre:      Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance Director:   Guillermo del Toro Cast:        Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Chastain…and more Writers:    Guillermo del Toro, Matthew Robbins After suffering a personal tragedy, a young 19th century American woman is seduced by a charming British aristocrat and his mysterious sister to cross the ocean and settle in their […]

Suffragette (2015)- BFI London Film Festival 2015

Posted by Gui on October 11, 2015

Review 106min Genre:     Fact-based, Drama Director:  Sarah Gavron Cast:       Carey Mulligan, Anne-Marie Duff, Helena Bonham Carter…more Writer:    Abi Morgan Carey Mulligan stars as a young working-class wife and mother in early 20th century Britain whose life is thrown into turmoil when she gets caught up in the Suffragette movement for women’s rights. As her commitment […]

Far from the Madding Crowd (2015) (English Language)

Posted by Gui on May 1, 2015

Review 119min Genre:    Drama, Romance Director: Thomas Vinterberg Cast:      Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen…more Writers : Thomas Hardy, David Nicholls The latest big-screen adaptation of the classic Thomas Hardy novel set in 19th century rural England, Carey Mulligan stars as Bathsheba Everdene, a fiercely independent farm-running young heiress who is pursued by three very […]