Cameo
Spotted myself in the crowd at the Opening Gala. Can you spot yourself?
Month: February 2019
The Vanishing
A movie based on the Flannan Isle Mystery. It has a 3 scene cameo from my favourite pencil-necked, blue-eyed psychopath Soren Malling, which almost steals the show for understated ratcheting of tension. Much in the same vein as Shallow Grave and A Simple Plan, it has an element of conflict injected into a tight group,…
The Third Wife
Family politics in 19th century Vietnam as a wealthy silk producer gets himself a 14-year-old for his third wife. The Third Wife is everything you’d expect in historical drama set in East Asia – sumptuous gowns, sensuous filming, candlelit sex scenes.
Dear Son
A movie that could not be more relevant to the current newscycle, Dear Son is about a father searching for answers after his son up and runs off to Syria. A vividly drawn picture of an ordinary family undergoing the ordinary issue of a teenager making a bad decision, painting the ecstatics of betrayal and…
Kia and Cosmos
An Indian retelling of the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime. Kia, an autistic teenage girl, investigates the death of Cosmos, a pregnant cat. The movie is beautiful but has no pacing at all.
Mid90s
Mid90s is a really sweet, tender story about making friends, growing up, and forging a new identity for yourself. For all the character’s ups and downs, this is a bright sunny day of a film, promising a birth into a new, if complicated, life.
This year’s Opening Gala bag
Can’t decide if it’s dark blue or black? Confirmed – dark blue.
Arctic trailer
Going to see this film at GFF19 and the trailer is just clips of Mads Mikkelsen in situations that make him go, “FUCK!” The first wee sigh is like a tiny “fuck” and it just grows in ever increasing stakes to “FUUUCCCKK”. Is it cruel that there’s part of me wants to see this trailer…