Sofía Korous Vázquez explores the exquisite visuals of a Kieślowski masterpiece. This past week FilmSoc screened Krzysztof Kieślowski’s The Double Life of Veronique (1991), a …
Visual poetry in The Double Life of Veronique
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‘The Lighthouse’ Review
Kirese Narinesingh reviews Robert Eggers’ acclaimed new film. This review contains minor spoilers. At one point in The Lighthouse, Robert Pattinson’s forlorn, spiritually exhausted character …
‘Our Ladies’ Review – BFI London Film Festival 2019
Editor KC Wingert reviews Michael Caton-Jones’ female-led film at BFI LFF 2019. The Scottish comedy Our Ladies made its world premiere on Friday, 4th October, …
‘Joker’ Review
Audrey Ciancioni and Margot Lumb review Todd Phillips’ divisive new take on the infamous DC villain. This review contains minor spoilers. The newly released Joker …
‘Family Romance, LLC’ Review – BFI London Film Festival 2019
Milo Garner reviews Werner Herzog’s intimate new film at BFI LFF 2019. Werner Herzog has a penchant for representing the alienated. His great films of …
‘Waiting for the Barbarians’ Review – BFI London Film Festival 2019
Emma Davis reviews Ciro Guerra’s latest colonial drama. Waiting for the Barbarians follows a man called the Magistrate (Mark Rylance) over the course of a …
‘Lucky Grandma’ Review – BFI London Film Festival 2019
KC Wingert reviews the buzzed-about dark comedy at LFF 2019. With her debut feature Lucky Grandma, a film about an elderly Chinese-American woman with a …
‘Hobbs & Shaw’ Review
Xara Zabihi Dutton reviews the highly anticipated Fast & Furious spin-off. This review contains spoilers. The moment Luke Hobbs (Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson) lifted his …
‘Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood’ Review
Gwendoline Blangy reviews Quentin Tarantino’s newest film. Bloody explosions, the n-word, swearing, unlimited violence, feet-worshipping…that’s what everyone expected when Quentin Tarantino’s 9th film made its …
‘The Peanut Butter Falcon’ Review – BFI London Film Festival 2019
Editor KC Wingert reviews our first film from BFI LFF 2019. Warning: this review contains spoilers. Making its UK premiere at LFF, The Peanut Butter …