My Long Distance Friend
In Carina Molier’s utterly enchanting documentary, we follow part of a very disjointed and unsettling journey – that of OG, a young woman from Zimbabwe, and the eponymous long-distance friend of the director.
Category Archives: Reviews
Mumbai Charlie
An ode to Chaplin. Deepak Verma’s comedic, feel-good short film is set in the aftermath of the 2001 earthquake, and the Charlie Chaplin cult that ensued with the intention to bring back laughter.
Mann V Ford
It’s Erin Brockovich, the TV-documentary version.
Sympathy for Mr Vengeance
To most, director Park Chan-Wook is best known for OLDBOY; yet his earlier picture SYMPATHY FOR MR VENGEANCE has plenty to say on the nature of retribution.
Mademoiselle Chambon
Naomi Barnwell reviews Stéphane Brizé’s absorbingly moving film.
Short Fusion: Love Lost And Found
Jamie Brittain reviews two films from the LOVE LOST AND FOUND series at CFF2011.
Forest Screening: Robin Hood
Hugh Paterson attended the screening of Allan Dwan’s ROBIN HOOD in Rendlesham Forest.
Dirt
Daniel Fawcett’s DIRT is a heartfelt look at a young person’s difficulty fitting in with the adult world and a wish to recapture that childhood feeling of being ‘free’. Jim Ross reviews.
You, The Living
Jim Ross embraces the traight-faced, deadpan humour of Roy Andersson’s YOU, THE LIVING
Songs from the Second Floor
Rosy Hunt reviews Roy Andersson’s SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR: an absurdist, artistic treatment of Purgatory which deserves the Jury Prize it won at Cannes.