Germinal Roaux, Switzerland, 2018 Windswept, stark and cold. Both the place and her life. Fortuna is a 14 year-old Ethiopian … More
Category: Cinema
Retrato de Una Mujer en Llamas
(Portrait of a Lady on Fire) Céline Sciamma, France, 2019 I found it hard to follow the subtitles for this … More
My decade: Magic Lantern Film Club
Back in the spring of 2011, I was looking for something else to do. I wanted to get more involved … More
Knives Out (Puñales por la Espalda)
Rian Johnson, USA, 2019 Who killed the patriarch? This was fun, a daft antidote to the hard-hitting reality of my … More
ArteKino Festival
I discovered this free online European film festival today! It runs all month and has ten films you can watch … More
Te doy mis ojos/Sorry we missed you
Iciar Bollaín, España, 2003 Ken Loach, UK, 2019 I didn’t watch these together – they would make an emotionally exhausting … More
Dart film festival
This weekend was the third edition of Dart, a contemporary art documentary film festival, “The world of contemporary art through … More
Liberté
Albert Serra, France/Portugal/Spain, 2019 Erm…WTF?! This was boring nonsense. The trailer makes it look like dastardly French Revolution-era intrigue, but … More
Bait
Mark Jenkin, UK, 2019 The natives of a Cornish fishing village are trying to cope with a changing world, as … More
Parasite
Bong Joon-ho, South Korea, 2019 I find Korean cinema so refreshingly unusual, and previous films from this director are among … More
The medial malleolus 