69th BFI London Film Festival: 44 publications

Victor Fraga - 27-09-2025

Jodie Foster is the unhinged shrink from hell, in this silly and fun French psychological thriller - from the 69th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 25-09-2025

Colin Farrell plays an alcohol and casino addict hiding in Macao, in Edward Berger's silly thriller, with a toxic message for gamblers - on Netflix on Monday, October 27th [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 22-09-2025

Stroke throws a spanner into the hedonistic life of an older gay man, in this superb Basque drama bursting with humanism, empathy and candid sex - from the 69th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 07-09-2025

The human, the botanical and dreamy collide in Ildikó Enyedi's exquisite new film, about three generations of people in Germany and one single tree - from the 69th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 03-09-2025

Five-year-old girl trapped inside car with six dead relatives begs for help over the telephone, in Kaouther Ben Hania's horrifyingly real register of the Gaza Genocide - in cinemas on Friday, January 16th [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 02-09-2025

François Ozon's screen adaptation of Albert Camus's meditation on indifference is as quiet and dark as its protagonist - from the 69th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 01-09-2025

Ninety-two-year-old star takes viewers on an emotional journey of her turbulent life, and shares the dirty secrets of [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 30-08-2025

Repulsive, mumbling creature morphs into a virile and eloquent wonder, in Guillermo del Toro’s extremely ambitious adaptation of Mary Shelley’s gothic masterpiece - in cinemas on Friday, October 17th [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 30-08-2025

A black cloud hangs over the head of those living near the Vesuvius, while time conveys both healing and destruction - Gianfranco Rosi's quiet and observational doc shows at the Tallinn Black Nights [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 30-08-2025

Boats, men and their imagination get terribly lost at sea, in Mark Jenkin's inventive fisherman's tale - from the 5th Red Sea International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 29-08-2025

A magnetic Carmen Maura plays a Spanish grandma based in Tangier and determined to keep the house where she spent most of her life - Maryam Touzani's charming ode to independence at old age shows at the BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 28-08-2025

George Clooney stars as a movie actor who can only play himself, in this metatextual tribute to the American superstar - unimaginative Hollywood drama is in cinemas on Friday, November 14th [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 27-08-2025

Sorrentino's study of physical, moral and political decay uses the moribund presidential office of Italy as its subject (the outcome, however, is barely political) - from REC Tarragona [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 20-08-2025

Rural tradition and TikTok sensibilities clash to explosive results, in this very clever and uplifting comedy from North Macedonia - from the Tallinn Black Nights [Read More...]

André Vital Pardue - 14-08-2025

Aided by an invisible friend, a desperate man searches for his missing daughter - monumental ode to the aimless souls of Georgia shows at the Tallinn Black Nights [Read More...]

Lida Bach - 09-07-2025

Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason explores a family’s break-up with stoical patience, enticing imagery and a quirky sense of humour - from various festivals [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 06-07-2025

The Cornish director of Bait and Enys Men returns to the medium of short film with a kaleidoscopic travelogue of the Celtic world - from the BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

André Vital Pardue - 06-07-2025

Ira Sachs' stripped-back homage to iconic photographer is part of a larger appreciation of the NYC queer mythos, as well as an interrogation of a “normal day" - in cinemas on Friday, January 2nd [Read More...]

Eoghan Lyng - 24-05-2025

A miscast Josh O'Connor plays Mooney, a novice criminal who tries to pull off the perfect art heist...and fails miserably at it - on Mubi in December [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 24-05-2025

Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson star in this loud tale of failed motherhood and female insanity - on VoD on Friday, January 24th [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 24-05-2025

Eighteen-year-old Marina retraces the footsteps of her biological parents in Galicia (Northwestern Spain) - Carla Simon's heartbreakingly honest, semi-autobiographical new film shows in various festivals [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 23-05-2025

Bi Gan's tribute dreams and the movies is heavily sanitised cinema and geopolitical propaganda - in cinemas on Friday, March 13th [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 22-05-2025

GRAND PRIX WINNER AT CANNES: Seventy-year-old filmmaker is hellbent on finishing his first movie in a decade, as Joachim's Trier comments on the complex relationship between artistry and humanity - in cinemas on Friday, December 26th [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 22-05-2025

In the New England of the 1910s, two folk singers fall in love, sing and part, in a British-American co-production as boring as it sounds - in cinemas on Friday, January 23rd [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 21-05-2025

Police officer employs extreme intimidation tactics at work and also at home, in this honest, funny and enlightening drama from Cameroon (the concept of masculinity is guaranteed to ruffle some feathers in Europe) - from the 69th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 20-05-2025

PALME d'OR WINNER - Torture survivors accidentally kidnap their apparent tormentor of yore, in Panahi’s meditation on the ethics and the dynamics of revenge (with a message for Iranian censors and thugs) - in cinemas on Friday, November 5th [Read More...]

Eoghan Lyng - 19-05-2025

In this devilishly inventive tale of gay sex, a young inexperienced homosexual engages in a torrid liaison with an older biker - on VoD on Tuesday, January 13th [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 19-05-2025

TWO WINS AT CANNES AND FOURE OSCAR NOMINATIONS: Kleber Medonca Filho's crime drama about a dignified researcher on the run pays tribute to the films and the cinemas of yore, while also celebrating the director's native Recife, in Northeastern Brazil - in cinemas on Friday, February 20th [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 18-05-2025

George Orwell's musings on authoritarianism and state manipulation are juxtaposed against flashing cards, film clips and historical footage from the past 100 years - Raoul Peck's extraordinary new doc shows at the BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Eoghan Lyng - 18-05-2025

Kristen Stewart's directorial debut about an Olympic swimming hopeful is a strong film, however dented by sudden tonal shifts - in cinemas on Friday, February 6th [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 17-05-2025

Richard Linklater transports viewers back to the Paris and the Cannes of 1960, in his charming tribute to Jean-Luc Godard (mind: he occasionally betrays the spirit of the late French filmmaker) - in cinemas on Friday, January 30th [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 16-05-2025

European whims are shattered into pieces, in Oliver Laxe's hauntingly beautiful and disturbing allegory of life on the edge - in cinemas on Friday, February 27th [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 15-05-2025

Young and dignified lawyer confronts Stalin's corrupt establishment, in Sergei Loznitsa's profound and sombre new film - from the 29th Tallinn Black Nights [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 14-05-2025

Aesthetically astounding German drama seamlessly blends the visual and the tactile, just as it weaves together three families from different eras - in cinemas on Friday, March 6th [Read More...]

Lida Bach - 02-03-2025

Kahlil Joseph takes viewers on a dizzying, kaleidoscopic journey of Black history, in a movie straddling cinema and installation - from the 69th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 19-02-2025

While retaining his anti-cinema aesthetic, Radu Jude turns away from the absurd into the sad and profound - political drama about guilt and comfort is on VoD on Saturday, February 21st [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 19-02-2025

A super camp Ethan Hawke impersonates a famous American lyricist, in Richard Linklater's tedious and esoteric new film - on various VoD platforms on Tuesday, January 27th [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 17-02-2025

Couple are forced into being honest to each other after their daughter develops telepathic power, in this extremely simple and effective comedy from Germany - from the 69th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 17-02-2025

Maternal pressures cause a therapist to have a meltdown worse than any of her patients, in this very dark and engaging American dramedy - in cinemas on Friday, February 20th [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 16-02-2025

James Bond meets Dario Argento, in this Franco-Belgian explosion of violence, sex and colours - from various festivals [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 16-02-2025

Teen fugitive runs seeks shelter in a film studio, in Lucile Hadžihalilović's ice-cold, cryptic and laborious new creation - on VoD on Tuesday, January 20th [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 16-02-2025

Clever granny evades old-age "colony" established by Brazil's authoritarian government, in this gently dystopian drama set in a terrifyingly near future - from various festivals [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 15-02-2025

Michel Franco's new creation, about an illegal Mexican immigrant in the US, is less violent, more mature and rounded than New Order - showing at various film festivals [Read More...]

John Bleasdale - 03-02-2025

Polish filmmakers Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal deliver a postmodern rendering of  class bound exploitation with humour - from the BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]