The Waldheim Waltz
THE WALDHEIM WALTZ feels fresh and urgent all the way until the credits roll, writes Joseph McLauchlan at Cambridge Film Festival
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The Witch Hunters (Zlogonje)
THE WITCH HUNTERS is a charming and perceptive coming-of-age tale exploring a friendship, writes Gavin Midgley at Cambridge Film Festival
Been So Long
A colourful, exuberant musical that explodes with humour and sincerity, BEEN SO LONG encompasses the very soul of North London in a stunning, contemporary tale of love, loss and overcoming the past. On the estates of Camden, young mother Simone, played by the riveting Michaela Coel (Chewing Gum, Black Mirror), cares for her disabled daughter … Continue reading Been So Long
Lemonade
LEMONADE is a gritty and evocative story with subtle performances, Sarah Henkel reviews at Cambridge Film Festival.
Secret Ingredient
Gritty, cynical and intensely gripping – Gjorce Stavreski delivers a powerful piece that rests on a son’s desperate devotion to battle his father’s illness that delves them both into the unforgiving underworld of Macedonia’s drug-trade. With his father losing the fight to terminal lung-cancer and with it, his hope and mind, Vele (Blagoj Veselinov) is … Continue reading Secret Ingredient
Beautiful Boy
BEAUTIFUL BOY delivers enough tenderness to elicit emotion from its audience, but it’s a gradual release rather than a quick hit. Mark Liversidge reviews at London Film Festival.
Erik and the Iban
In 1959 a young man by the name of Erik Jensen boarded an ocean liner bound for Sarawak on the tropical Island of Borneo. Little did he know he would spend the next seven years living and working with the indigenous Iban people, researching their language and culture. Simultaneously, the traditional way of life for … Continue reading Erik and the Iban
Jean-François i el sentit de la vida
Francesc, an unhappy 13 year-old boy living in Barcelona, is inadvertently introduced to the works of Albert Camus, whose existentialist ideas he finds unconvincing but intriguing. Arming himself with a new French name, Jean-François, the boy sets out for Paris to give the writer a piece of his mind — unaware that Camus has been … Continue reading Jean-François i el sentit de la vida
You Go To My Head
It’s not hard to see why Dimitri de Clercq’s first solo feature as a director (he previously shared co-credit with Alain Robbe-Grillet on THE BLUE VILLA in 1995) has become a film festival favourite, recently winning Best Picture at Bogota, Houston and Orlando and picking up nominations for its cinematography, score and two lead actors … Continue reading You Go To My Head
The Silence Of Others
Two images recur in this documentary about the years following the end of General Franco’s brutal regime, and the struggle of victims’ relatives to get some sort of justice: a group of gaunt statues on a Spanish hillside representing those murdered (which immediately after being put up was riddled with bullets and thus ‘completed’ according … Continue reading The Silence Of Others