HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE is a thoughtful and beautiful exploration into one of the last holdouts of unexplored territory; a gentle yet deep dive into a world we seldom have access to, and that director Eleanor Mortimer urges us to try and protect.
KENNY DALGLISH provides an extended example not only of how sport, politics, and social justice can intersect, but also of why they should, whilst being mindful of the cost to those who feel they must.
IS THIS THING ON? captures that strange space between when you laugh and when you feel completely alone. Bradley Cooper is learning to trust quieter emotions and smaller details.
“The best way to critique a film is to make a film.” The provocative declaration belongs to Godard, but it’s Richard Linklater who reinvigorates it with NOUVELLE VAGUE’s reverence for the French New Wave.
SIRĀT is a film that purposefully defies expectation or strict genre classification. Beginning as a ‘found-family’ road-trip drama, it abruptly morphs into a painstakingly tension-fraught thrill ride, punctuated by moments crafted to shock and awe.
Awkward and endearing, PILLION is a stunningly impressive debut from HARRY LIGHTON, giving the rom-com the subversive, sexy spin it was in dire need of.
ONE WOMAN ONE BRA is a stealthily devastating film, where many strands come together to have a heartbreaking impact and show the effect of a community abandoning its most vulnerable members.
Director Cyril Aris’s A SAD AND BEAUTIFUL WORLD tells a story that can and has collapsed into a maudlin heap many times on film. However, the gentle chemistry of the romantic leads, the dexterity with which the film handles the passage of time, and the sincerity of relatable themes refracted through a Lebanese prism make the film an affecting and engaging romantic drama.
SALVE MARIA is a rebellion against the sociological monomyth of the ‘immaculate mother’ and a rebellion against a literary inheritance that makes monsters out of the mother disturbed, and a captivating story which also renders visible those who are so frequently mythically distorted: women in crisis.
BEAUTIFUL EVENING, BEAUTIFUL DAY by Croatian writer/director Ivona Juka presents the story of four filmmakers whose artistic, human, and sexual freedom hangs by a thread under Josip Broz Tito’s dictatorship. Shot in black and white, with incredible stylistic nuance and narrative depth, Juka’s LGBTQ drama is a monumental film of striking cultural importance.
