This year’s edition of the BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival, which took place 16th – 26th March 2017, offered…
Neruda (2016): Chile’s national treasure takes you on a playful and poetic epic
I was lucky enough to visit “La Sebastiana”, Pablo Neruda’s home in Valparaíso in Chile about 10 years ago. It’s…
Trust in me, just in me… watch Embrace of the Serpent
Ciro Guerra’s Embrace of the serpent (2015) is one of those films in which the story matters less than the…
Moonlight (2017): the audacious, melancholy portrayal of a man who wasn’t allowed to be himself
Hailed as one of the first mainstream films about being a black gay man in today’s America, Moonlight by Barry…
Californian women on the verge of a new century
Mike Mill’s light drama 20th Century Women explores the ups and downs of a peculiar group of women (and men)…
Mustang (2015): the beautiful story of five fillies fighting for their rights in traditional Turkey
Mustang by Deniz Gamze Ergüven was one of the great sensations of Cannes in 2015 and received great critical acclaim…
T2 Trainspotting (2017): what’s life like when you’ve been on drugs for 20 years?
Unlike superhero franchises, bespectacled magician sagas and New-Zealand-based heroic fantasy trilogies, 90’s cult film Trainspotting wasn’t exactly begging for a…
La La Land: from whiplash to Hollywood smash
I first became acquainted with Damien Chazelle’s work through his short film Whiplash, shown at the London Film Festival in…
Suddenly, I write about Suddenly, Last Summer by Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1959)
The human brain is a universe of its own. It encloses such unfathomable mysteries that modern science is only at…
Pack your compass, Davy Crockett hat and favourite books. Moonrise Kingdom: to the rescue!
Isn’t it great when one of your favourite directors of the moment delivers a film that’s even more brilliant and…
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