Peg Aloi
The selection of foreign films on offer at the BFI London Film Festival was of a very high quality.
With my customary determination and pluck, I’ve been able to get access to plenty of films at the London Film Fest that cover a broad spectrum of genres, budgets, and nations.
This is the Danish series that may well have inspired a juggernaut of provocative stories generated by life in these cold, civilized, but often dark Scandinavian lands.
Filmmaker David Lowery plumbs the depths of this ancient tale, discovering the places where the human and the otherworldly intersect, where the earthbound meets the ethereal.
The increased racial and cultural diversity of In Treatment’s cast and overall tone are noteworthy and commendable.
Mare of Easttown is particularly effective in interweaving troubled domestic timelines, families held together by women who are on the brink of psychic or emotional collapse.
Undine is a film best savored (and best absorbed) with a second viewing. Viewers must be open to its charms, perhaps allowing memories of the primal to seep into their consciousness.
There are stunning scenes full of energy and visual beauty, but Halston left me feeling somewhat cold.
More homages to 1971’s magnificent bursts of cinematic iconoclasm.
1971 gave us bursts of magnificent cinematic iconoclasm that had no future — culturally or politically.
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