#gff23 — Public Fediverse posts

The story of banned film Weekender is told in documentary I Am Weekender https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/i-am-weekender-2023-film-review-by-jennie-kermode #gff23 #documentary #censorship #film

"When I was a child, I believed everything was possible...I always had this image of...being in a leading role like this" - Thorvaldur Kristjansson discusses A Letter From Helga https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2023-03-26-interview-with-thorvaldur-kristjansson-about-a-letter-from-helga-feature-story-by-jennie-kermode #GFF23 #literature #Iceland #film

"While a specific killer may not be unmasked, toxic masculinity and its co-conspirator the patriarchal society stand in the dock - and the case against them is damning." - we take a look at The Night Of The 12th https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/the-night-of-the-12th-2022-film-review-by-amber-wilkinson #GFF23

A Tunisian man struggles with desperate poverty after his father dies in debt, leaving him to look after his sisters, in Harka https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/harka-2022-film-review-by-jennie-kermode #GFF23 #Tunisia #poverty #film

A forbidden love affair brings long-repressed desperation to the surface in a remote Icelandic community, in A Letter From Helga https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/a-letter-from-helga-2022-film-review-by-jennie-kermode #GFF23 #romance #film #Iceland

An awkward relationship forms when a struggling photographer discovers that he's the only person who can see his recently deceased friend, in The Civil Dead https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/the-civil-dead-2022-film-review-by-jennie-kermode #GFF23 #ghost #film #cinema

The Glasgow Film Festival is celebrating the return of audiences to pre-pandemic levels https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/news/2023-03-16-gff-audiences-return-to-pre-pandemic-lrevels-news-story-by-jennie-kermode #GFF23 #film #cinema #movies

#GFF23 // Le Otto Montagne (The Eight Mountains) - Felix Van Groenigen, Charlotte Vandermeersch

Imagine brockeback mountain, but so much better, in Europe and without bum sex

#GFF23 // Sigurno Mjesto (Safe Place) - Jura Lerotić

I need to stop falling for sad, Slavic boys

A child with a hyperacute sense of smell has a series of magical experiences in The Five Devils https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/the-five-devils-2022-film-review-by-andrew-robertson #GFF23 #film #cinema #movies

Biopic Chevalier takes on the life of the composer and son of an enslaved plantation worker Joseph Bologne https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/chevalier-2022-film-review-by-andrew-robertson #GFF23 #film #music #cinema

"We really tried to find the humanity in the slasher film" - Jonas Trukanas on Pensive (aka Rupintojelis) https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2023-03-12-interview-with-jonas-trukanas-about-pensive-aka-rupintojelis-feature-story-by-jennie-kermode #GFF23 #Frightfest #horror #film

When killers target a remote home, they are surprised to discover that the babysitter due to work there has asked her wrestler boyfriend to take her place - it's Here For Blood https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/here-for-blood-2022-film-review-by-jennie-kermode #GFF23 #Frightfest #wrestling #film

"I think it's really good to understand how easy it is to be manipulated, to be confused, and possibly fall into the trap" - Marie Alice Wolfszahn on Mother Superior https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2023-03-11-interview-with-marie-alice-wolfszahn-about-mother-superior-feature-story-by-jennie-kermode #GFF23 #Frightfest #horror #film

Documentary Free Money charts the course of a radical experiment with universal basic income in a Kenyan village https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/free-money-2022-film-review-by-jennie-kermode #GFF23 #UBI #documentary #film

Two brothers on the run hole up in a farmhouse where something is seriously amiss in Little Bone Lodge https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/little-bone-lodge-2023-film-review-by-jennie-kermode #GFF23 #Frightfest #horror #film

A woman faces would-be killers on a night shift as a janitor in Hunt Her, Kill Her https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/hunt-her-kill-her-2022-film-review-by-jennie-kermode #GFF23 #Frightfest #horror #film

The rise of 2-tone ska is celebrated in vintage documentary Dance Craze https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/dance-craze-1981-film-review-by-jennie-kermode #GFF23 #ska #documentary #film

A young nurse with an ulterior motive becomes carer to a Baroness with a Nazi past and a love of the occult in Mother Superior https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/mother-superior-2022-film-review-by-jennie-kermode #GFF23 #Frightfest #occult #film

"People, in general, ignore what happens in prisons...and a lot of things are still terrible" - Alberto Rodriguez talks Prison 77 (aka Modelo 77) https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2023-03-10-qa-with-alberto-rodriguez-about-prison-77-feature-story-by-jennie-kermode #GFF23 #prison #film #cinema

The story of Muhammad Ali's religious conversion and political awakening is told in documentary Cassius X: Becoming Ali https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/cassius-x-becoming-ali-2022-film-review-by-jennie-kermode #GFF23 #Islam #documentary #film

The tragic story of the 1982 Formula One season is told in documentary Villeneuve Pironi https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/villeneuve-pironi-2022-film-review-by-andrew-robertson #GFF23 #F1 #documentary #film

Bank robbers fall out due to racism in late era film noir Odds Against Tomorrow https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/odds-against-tomorrow-1959-film-review-by-jennie-kermode #GFF23 #FilmNoir #film #cinema

When her partner goes off to work in Valencia, a new mother goes to stay with her parents on the Basque coast, in Lullaby https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/lullaby-2022-film-review-by-jennie-kermode #GFF23 #film #parenting #cinema

"Identity is not a concrete thing" - Jena Malone on Adopting Audrey and Consecration https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2023-03-09-interview-with-jena-malone-about-adopting-audrey-and-consecration-feature-story-by-jennie-kermode #GFF23 #acting #film #movies

In a near future Japan, elderly people are encouraged to choose assisted dying, in Plan 75 https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/plan-75-2022-film-review-by-jennie-kermode #GFF23 #film #cinema

#GFF23 // I Like Movies - Chandler Levack

Levack keeps the plot on a slow simmer throughout. Lawrence is one of those guys that you can see being an early youtube adopter. Lawrence is an asshole, an asshole who has created a buble for himself and we found him at a stage where that bubble is pierced when he gets his first job.

I can't quite put my finger on what made me enjoy it so much, but it's been a while since I enjoyed a what in the end is a feel good coming-of-age flick.

#GFF23 // Un Beau Matin (One Fine Morning) - Mia Hansen-Løve

It’s the 3rd film I’ve watched this week which deals with old age and dementia, maybe I’m fatigued.

Kudos for the most French Christmas gathering ever shot

The story of artist and mental health survivor Audrey Amiss is explored through a fictional road trip in Typist Artist Pirate King https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/typist-artist-pirate-king-2022-film-review-by-jennie-kermode #GFF23 #schizophrenia #art #film

"The characters’ world, when it works, is a palace, its imagination, its freedom, until it stops being and I really wanted that to come across. The way to do that was with colour - to express that when they're in their flat everything is possible" - in the second part of our interview with Girl director Adura Onashile she tells us about the use of colour, light and costume in the film https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2023-02-28-adura-onashile-on-colour-and-light-in-girl-feature-story-by-amber-wilkinson #film #Girl #GFF23 #Sundance2023

"Manzoor operates a controlled chaos that blends the colour and splendour of Bollywood with sly British satire reminiscent of early Edgar Wright." - we venture into Polite Society https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/polite-society-2023-film-review-by-amber-wilkinson #PoliteSociety #Film #Bollywood #Comedy #Satire #Sundance #GFF23 #Sundance2023

“The main challenge was to develop the characters and especially that of Yohan, combined with raising the subject of male violence against women without making it too theoretical or a feminist statement and more woven into the fiction." - Dominik Moll on his latest crime thriller The Night Of The 12th https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2023-02-08-director-dominik-moll-finds-menace-in-the-mountains-in-the-night-of-the-12th-feature-story-by-richard-mowe #GFF23 #TheNightOfThe12th #film #Cesars #DominikMoll