London Film Festival
DN LFF2010 – Leap Year – Michael Rowe
Leap Year follows the month of February with freelance jounrnist, Laura. Shot within the four walls of her apartment, she observes her neighbours and eats canned food whilst lying to her mother on the phone about the life she’s living in the city. Some nights, Laura goes out and returns home with a man to [...]
DN LFF2010: Malavoglia – Pasquale Scimeca
Based on the famous novel by Giovanni Verga, Malavoglia is a film about a family of fisherman that live in a house known as ‘The Medlars House’ and have a boat named ‘Providence’. A poor but hardworking family, they are clearly grateful for the belongings they have and don’t take their life for granted. It’s [...]
LFF2010: Winter Vacation
It’s frustratingly difficult to get hold of Hongqi Li’s previous films Routine Holiday and Hao Duo Da Mi, even in his native China, so I’m coming to Winter Vacation as a Hongqi Li novice. I understand he’s better known as a poet, though I haven’t been able to read up on him much. But believe [...]
DN LFF2010: Lemmy – Greg Olliver and Wes Orshoski
I feel silly trying to write an introduction to a documentary film named “Lemmy,” I hope when you hear the title you instinctively think of the legendary Motorhead bassist and frontman, if you do, you’re along the right lines. Greg Olliver and Wes Orshoshki spent three years following Lemmy during various stages of his day-to-day [...]
LFF2010: Ruhr
Those familiar with James Benning’s name would have known what to expect with his new film Ruhr; slow-cinema taken to its extreme ends. Benning’s work has been long admired by a dedicated audience who find his patient and durational portraits of a chosen province, often his hometown, a mesmerizing experience and a treasure to behold. [...]
DN LFF2010: What I Love The Most – Delfina Castagnino
The first feature from Delfina Castagnino, What I Love The Most is a simple understated film about two friends who lack the ability to console each other. Pilar lives with in Argentine Patagonia, her father has recently passed leaving her behind a windmill she’s forced to close down and a horse she’s not qualified to [...]
LFF2010: The Kids Are All Right
Leaving Sundance as one of the most talked of movies in the festival and winning the best feature film award at the Berlin International Film Festival, The Kids Are All Right comes to the London Film Festival with a certain air of expectation surrounding it. Multi-nominated Academy Award nominee’s Annette Bening and Julianne Moore are [...]
DN LFF2010: Copacabana – Marc Fitoussi
Copacabana is the story of Babou (Isabelle Huppert), an individual, a mother who can shrug off jobs, friends, responsibilities, almost anything in the quest for fun and spontaneity. When her only daughter is too embarrassed by her behaviour to invite her to her wedding, it jolts Babou into attempting to sort herself out. Taking a [...]
LFF2010: Attenberg
If we’re going to attach Attenberg to a genre, I suppose it would be a ‘rites-of-passage’ movie, though it’s pretty far removed from what you might imagine if I told you that its about a young woman coming to terms with love and death in a small coastal town. But Attenberg is full of surprises. [...]
DN LFF2010: Hunting and Sons – Sander Burger
Hunting and Sons is the second feature from Sander Burger, focused on a couple who appear to be living an ordinary life the film is full of questions of what takes us over the edge. After returning to Amsterdam to take over his late father’s shop, Taco meets Sandra, a woman who’s loved him since [...]
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