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Alejandro Landes on Monos: “Leave your prejudices at the door”
Alejandro Landes’s surreal, unsettling war story follows a squad of adolescent guerrillas fighting for an unknown cause in an unnamed country. The director talks to Isabel Stevens about the challenges of a remote shoot and why he was determined not to trade on pity in his portrait of child soldiers.
Tuesday 22 October 2019 -
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What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? review – New Orleans as gothic carnival
In his latest missive from the American South, Roberto Minervini leans in on a poetic portrait of Southern black life in all its grace, mystery and darkness – but falters the further he ventures from his wonderful heroine Judy Hill, says Sukhdev Sandhu.
Friday 18 October 2019 -
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Non-Fiction review: Olivier Assayas explores the public and private stories we tell now
The blurred lines of work and life, of bourgeois culture and ethics, play out through the entanglements of Guillaume Canet and Juliette Binoche’s literary couple in this verbose but many-layered parable, writes Erika Balsom.
Friday 18 October 2019 -
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Maleficent: Mistress of Evil review – Michelle Pfeiffer makes fairies go boom
Pfeiffer’s mean queen and a very weird multicultural fairy haven are amongst the passing pleasures of Disney’s generally bombastic Angelina Jolie sequel, says Violet Lucca.
Thursday 17 October 2019 -
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The Laundromat review: a light jest in the swamps of dark money
Soderbergh’s try-hard muckraking comedy pits Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas’s smarmy Panama Papers frontmen against Meryl Streep’s speechifying financial innocent. Nice try but no cigar, says Trevor Johnston.
Thursday 17 October 2019 -
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Official Secrets review: Keira Knightley shoulders a true-life Iraq War whistleblowing thriller
Knightley’s ascetic account of GCHQ whistleblower Katharine Gun is the true north of Gavin Hood’s solid, spiralling spy procedural, says Matthew Taylor.
Thursday 17 October 2019 -
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Deep focus: Maurice Pialat – the man who changed French cinema
Maurice Pialat’s stark, unsentimental films left a mark on French cinema that arguably outweighs even that of the nouvelle vague. For our latest Deep Focus season, David Thompson explores the pugnacious realist’s career.
Thursday 17 October 2019 -
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie review – a tele-finale for old fans’ sake
Vince Gilligan’s feature-length coda to his legendary crime-building series traces a ho hum chance at redemption for Aaron Paul’s rough diamond Jesse Pinkman; but there are passing pleasures for the devoted, finds Vadim Rizov.
Wednesday 16 October 2019 -
Instinct review: a woman’s dark fantasy of male validation
A study of a prison psychologist’s dangerous crush on a sexually violent patient, Halina Reijn’s accomplished and hypnotic film goes to some secret, lonely places, says Elena Lazic.
Wednesday 16 October 2019 -
Co-ordinating intimacy: making sex scenes safe
At the 2019 BFI London Film Festival, two film directors and two intimacy coordinators shared notes on what they’ve learned filming up close and comfortably for actors and crew. Rebecca Harrison took notes.
Monday 14 October 2019
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