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BFI London Film Festival 2013: Review Roundup #2

by Maryann O'Connor 11 October 2013

Here are some more short LFF reviews for your reading pleasure: Walesa, Man of Hope; Afternoon Delight; The Wishful Thinkers; The Fear; Hello Carter and Leave to Remain…

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LFF 2013 Review: Jeune et Jolie

by David Katz 10 October 2013

Another year, another fine film from François Ozon. He’s assuming a role similar to the now-declining Pedro Almodóvar in UK film culture: that of a frisky, literate arthouse populist.

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LFF 2013 Review: Captain Phillips

by Mairéad Roche 10 October 2013

In 2009 the American cargo ship, MV Maersk Alabama, was boarded by a group of Somali pirates in international waters off the Horn of Africa. The subsequent hostile takeover led to a determined American naval intervention centred around the ship’s captain, Richard Philips.

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London Film Festival: Reality

by Silvia Felce 15 October 2012

Reality could not be more different from Matteo Garrone’s previous film, mafia drama Gomorrah, although it does share the same neorealist aesthetic, showing once again another crude and sincere image of Italy.

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London Film Festival: Antiviral

by Vicki Cole 15 October 2012

Brandon Cronenberg’s directorial debut takes us to an unidentified future where society’s obsession with ‘celebrity’ has reached the depraved extremes of paying to be injected with their favourite celebrities’ illnesses and diseases.

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London Film Festival: Celeste and Jesse Forever

by Vicki Cole 26 September 2012

Celeste and Jesse Forever seemingly tells the classic tale of girl meets boy, girl and boy fall in love, girl and boy get married. However, we are made aware that there’s more to this particular love story when happily ever after takes place before the title credits have ended.

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