Tag: 68th BFI London Film Festival

Ibrahim Azam - 11-10-2024

In his feature-length debut, Sasha Nathwani brings us a poignant and reflective coming-of-age tale set against the hectic backdrop of central London - from the 68th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Daniel Theophanous - 10-10-2024

Two African Americans sent to a brutal juvenile institution see their dreams and aspirations destroyed, in this hypnotic yet uneven drama - from the 68th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

DMovies' team - 03-10-2024

We have cherry picked the 10 most provocative, subversive and downright filthy 10 films from the 69th BFI London Film Festival, and reviewed them exclusively for you! [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 28-09-2024

Despite the gloomy cancer topic, John Crowley's new creation (featuring Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh) remains a very traditional romcom - from the 68th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 26-09-2024

Marianne Jen-Baptiste is the bitter wife, mum and sister from hell, in Mike Leigh's stormy family drama - from the 68th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 25-09-2024

Filthy old ghost haunts three women on various video devices - clever teen scream horror is a refreshing addition to the 68th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 23-09-2024

Francois Ozon's tale of failed grandmotherhood moves and engages, despite a few clunky twists and turns - from the 68th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 22-09-2024

Joshua Oppenheimer's first incursion into the world of fiction is a pointless and pretentious post-apocalyptical potboiler - from the 68th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 21-09-2024

The first successful prosecution of a Spanish politician for harassment becomes a poignant drama, boasting strong performances and credible developments - from the 68th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 20-09-2024

Ralph Fiennes stars as a dignified dean charged with moderating the papal conclave from hell - from the 68th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 08-09-2024

Wang Bing's final entry in the trilogy of Chinese workers in the shortest instalment, at a "mere" 153 minutes of observational cinema - from the 68th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 05-09-2024

Two desperate parents scramble to find their missing baby girl, on a quest aided by surveillance technology - from the 68th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 04-09-2024

Sicilian soldier stirs the relative peace of a large Italian family, in this beautiful yet soporific drama - from the 68th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 03-09-2024

Luca Guadagnino's adaptation of William Burroughs's early short novel (starring a drug-addicted, randy Daniel Craig) is an anodyne blend of strawberry fantasy and vanilla erotica - from the 68th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 02-09-2024

Almodovar's first feature film in English is an amusing and enlightening meditation on cancer and suicide, and a lot less melodramatic than his Spanish movies - Golden Lion winner premieres at the BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 01-09-2024

In a career-defining performance, Fernanda Torres (with a helping hand from her mum) establishes Walter Salles's latest film as the ultimate Brazilian dictatorship drama - from the 68th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 30-08-2024

John Lennon and Yoko Ono become American conveyors of change during the early 1970s, in this superbly assembled documentary - showing at the 68th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 29-08-2024

Angelina Jolie and Maria Callas engage in a fierce battle for the spotlight, in Pablo Larrain's uneven biopic of the tragic diva - from the BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Eoghan Lyng - 13-08-2024

Amnesiac man experiences rebirth by reading his own musings from decades earlier, in a film with some peculiar similarities to Cinema Paradiso - from the 68th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 28-06-2024

Transactional human beings and accidental places: Palestinian refugees resort to a life of crime in order to survive and be reunited with their loved ones in Europe - from the 68th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fragas - 28-05-2024

At the height of the The Women, Life, Freedom movement in Iran, a civil servant gets promoted to role that will challenge his morals, and compromise the integrity of his family - Mohammad Rasoulof's heart-stopping new drama shows at the BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Joshua Polanski - 27-05-2024

Dirty gem from India bludgeons the beauty standards of both Bollywood and Hollywood, while refreshingly allowing women to find pleasure in sex - from the BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 24-05-2024

New York pole dancer marries the spoiled child of a Russian millionaire, in Sean Baker's high-octane class struggle comedy (a movie with a crucial touch of empathy, and many parallels to Tangerine) - Palme d'Or winner shows at the BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 23-05-2024

Miguel Gomes's new film has the aesthetic ambitions and also some topical similarities with his masterpiece Taboo, yet the soporific travelogue of Asia slips into artistic banality - from the 68th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Eoghan Lyng - 23-05-2024

In this spectral piece of slow cinema, two gay men reconcile their dirty and underground job with love - LGBT+ drama infused with positivity premieres at the 68th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Eoghan Lyng - 22-05-2024

A gravedigger, a seamstress and a child fight for their survival inside a ruthless society, in this achingly sorrowful and spellbinding drama from Somalia - from the 68th BFI London Film Festival. [Read More...]

Eoghan Lyng - 19-05-2024

In this dazzlingly inventive African drama, three women are reunited under grief and love - Rungano Nyoni showcases her latest creation at the BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 19-05-2024

Jia Zhangke's latest portrait of the China is profound, laborious and meditative, dotted with snippets of joy, and perhaps his most difficult film to date - UK premiere takes place at the BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 19-05-2024

Fiery trans gangster musical is fuelled by explosive Mexican soap opera devices; the outcome is guaranteed to blow you away - from the 68th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 17-05-2024

Solemn and austere drama explores the dark machinations of homophobia in rural Romania, with a familiar yet jarring story bursting with subtleties - from the 68th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 17-05-2024

Andrea Arnold's ultra-British blend of social realism and magical realism is uneven yet fascinating to watch - UK premiere takes place at the BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 25-02-2024

Young woman happily marries three brothers in rural Nepal, before a controversial pregnancy disrupts their fragile harmony - from the 68th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 22-02-2024

Young man groomed by Isis returns to his Tunisian family of farmers with a mysterious wife; the woman harbours a dark secret under her purple niqab - from the BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 21-02-2024

Isabelle Huppert stars as a happy-go-lucky and captivating French teacher living in Korea, in Hong Sang-soo’s breezy new drama - from the 68th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 20-02-2024

Mati Diop's new creation is a deeply poetic rumination on French colonialism; she once again uses the Atlantic Ocean as a dark and sombre watershed - Golden Bear winner shows at the 69th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 19-02-2024

American myths of social integration, freedom and tolerance are bust, seared and broiled in this kitchen from hell - caustic social satire shows is the 68th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Eoghan Lyng - 31-01-2024

Audiences experience the dirty side of Brazilian history as a 19th century slave wakes up in present-day Rio - from the 68th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 11-11-2023

Italian prostitutes raise a mentally handicapped man as if he was their baby, in this raw and tender tale of motherly affection in the most unlikely of places - from the 68th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]