Erika Balsom is a scholar and critic based in London, working on cinema, art and their intersection. She is a senior lecturer in Film Studies at King’s College London and holds a PhD in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University.
See her website at erikabalsom.com.
Articles by Erika Balsom
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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, October 18, 2019
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High Life review: Claire Denis probes the outer reaches of human taboos
Claire Denis’s extraordinary space venture expels Robert Pattinson’s convict to the dark side of the social contract, and pits the need to live together against the need to live, writes Erika Balsom.
Friday, May 10, 2019
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Happy as Lazzaro review: Alice Rorhwacher holds a holy mirror to the persistence of injustice
The steady gaze of Adriano Tadiolo’s beatific innocent anchors the Italian director’s superlative magical-realist fable of modern servitude, ancient bonds and timeless miracles, writes Erika Balsom.
Sunday, April 7, 2019
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The Image Book review: Jean-Luc Godard’s ruminative and radical montage
Godard’s multifaceted essay film revels in the mobility and mutability of imagery in the 21st century, uncovering the violence of representation but always searching for hope in a cacophonous world, writes Erika Balsom.
Thursday, December 6, 2018
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Breaking time’s arrow: Lucrecia Martel and Zama at the 2017 LFF
The Argentinian filmmaker brought her colonial-era costume fever dream to the London Film Festival, and in a following screen talk explained her invitation to the audience to submerge themselves in its voluminous conception of time, reports Erika Balsom.
Friday, October 20, 2017
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Upbeat film of the week: La La Land – a modern musical of stardust and blues
Damien Chazelle’s irresistibly fleet-footed reboot of the classical Hollywood musical makes earthy whimsy from a story of love versus creative dedication, says Erika Balsom.
Saturday, January 14, 2017
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Podcast: Certain Women, Elle, Moonlight and Nocturama – four 2016 highlights, debated
Kieron Corless hosts Erika Balsom, Henry K. Miller and Catherine Wheatley for a half-hour debate about four outstanding movies from this autumn’s London Film Festival.
Thursday, December 1, 2016
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The Illinois Parables: Deborah Stratman on her histories of the land
The artist and filmmaker talks the politics of place, allegories of exile and questions of film form with Erika Balsom.
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
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Chevalier review: mean men at sea
Tsangari’s feminist portrait of men without women is a dark satire of the neoliberal games we must play, says Erika Balsom.
Thursday, July 21, 2016
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