Reviews

Director/writer: Kim Ki-Duk Don Lee, Kim Young-min, Lee Yi-kyung, Cho Dong-in, Yoo Teo, Ahn Ji-hye, Jo Jae-ryong, Kim Joong-ki Drama, South Korea, 122 min Kim Ki-Duk hasn’t been given a competition berth at...

LA RANÇON DE LA GLOIRE Dir.: Xavier Beauvois Cast: Benoit Poelvoorde, Roschdy Zem, Chiara Mastroianni, Nadine Labaki France/Belgium/Switzerland, 114 min. 1977: Eddie, a 40 year old Belgian small-time crook, is released from prison in...

Director: Alex Gibney 119min   US   Documentary Well-known, prolific documentary-maker Alex Gibney has recently given us Mea Maxima Culpa; Julian Assange in Wikileaks: We Steal Secrets and Lance Armstrong (The Armstrong Lie). This time he turns his...

With a focus on World premieres from maverick directors from France, Italy and the USA, this year's Venice Film Fesitval (27 August until 7th September) may yet prove to be...

Director: Levan Koguashvili Cast: Andro Sakvarelidze, Ia Sukhitashvili, Archil Kikodze. 99min   Georgian with subtitles   Drama Dry humour and a sense of the absurd pervade this second feature from Georgian director Levan...

This year's Venice International Film Festival has a distinctly French flavour along with its French Jury President - the well-known composer Alexandre Desplat. Five of the competition films are from...

SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL features a dazzling line-up of nine indie films competing for the HEART OF SARAJEVO AWARD of which three are World Premieres. Eastern Europe focuses strongly in the...

Director: Mikkel Norgaard    Writers: Jussi Adler-Oslen and Nikolaj Arcel Cast: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Sonja Richter, Mikkel Boe Folsgaard, Peter Plaugborg 93mins  Nordic Noir   Danish with subtitles Nikolaj Lie Kaas...

Dir.: Stuart Murdoch; Cast: Emily Browning, Olly Alexander, Hannah Murray 111 min UK Drama Best known as lead singer of the indie band " Belle and Sebastian" Stuart Murdoch turns his talents...