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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019)
Well done William
True stories which are lovingly made can produce positive or even inspirational films like this one. It felt a little too melodramatic at times but the beautiful cinematography and assured performances of the entire cast left a positive feeling overall. The world would be a better place with more kids like William.
Andið eðlilega (2018)
On a suspension rope
As if on a tight suspension rope, this understated film reminds us that the smallest of margin of errors can often result to your destiny changing cataclysmically. The carefully interwoven story of two quietly powerful women, both having faced demons in their past and trying to start over but are facing significant challenges on their own journeys both metaphorically and literally, will get you thinking about moments when they have gone your way on the basis of trivial circumstances or gone against you in the blink of an eye on the slightest random detail.
Mommy (2014)
Kick in the guts
This film leaves you feeling as if you've been kicked in the guts (similar effect had the 'We need to talk about Kevin') with truly stellar performances, a mature direction with striking images that carve into your mind, and a story that even though most of us have never faced feels very personal indeed. Highly recommended!
Deadpool (2016)
My guilty pleasure of 2016
There is always a guilty pleasure film every year that creeps into my favourites and in 2016 it is no other than Deadpool which takes the comic hero genre to another level of funny where even the Guardians of the Galaxy could not reach. This one is not about the action scenes (which there were in good doses of) or even gory ones (which there were plenty of), but more so about the little details of an excellent score including music from Wham!, the amazing funny and borderline rude one liners including a ton of in-movie jokes and in general the entire self-sarcastic nature of it. In fact, and regardless of the admittedly very thin plot, it was so much fun that I had to watch it twice.
The Lobster (2015)
Not all love stories are the same
Admittedly I could hardly wait for the new collaboration between the director Yorgos Lanthimos and his usual collaborator the screenwriter Efthimis Filippou (who also wrote Chevalier which won the top prize in LFF2015) in their first English speaking feature. And it was yet again a thoroughly stimulating absurd surrealistic dark comedy, unique to its core. Wrapped up with a violently emotive score unfolds a story about finding love against the clock in a concentration camp for loners or turned into a animal of choice. Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz are great leads and Olivia Colman is an excellent supporting act in a film you won't quickly forget.
Midnight Special (2016)
An emotional journey worth taking
This is one of those films where you come out of the cinema feeling elated and want to get everyone you know to watch it, yet you are lost for words on how to describe it and possibly wondering whether their take of this film will be as rewarding to them as it was to you. Because in reality this film is merely but an emotional journey and whether what happens on the screen makes sense or not is not really important. And you cannot really even pinpoint the genre: is it a film about parenthood, or about a getaway, or maybe perhaps about a religion and the need to believe, or even is it simply a science fiction thriller? Whatever it is Mike Nichols delivers once again a thoroughly enjoyable film with an amazing cast including Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Adam Driver, Sam Shepard and of course the young Jaeden Lieberher.
Love & Friendship (2016)
Masterfully witty
Genuinely fun, witty and at times laugh out funny in ways I did not think a Jane Austen's story could be imagine. Lady Vernon is devilishly charming and deceitfully charming played by Kate Beckinsale who even though has not impressed me before is delightful here, whilst Tom Bennet's preposterous upper class twit Sir James is the film's true scene-stealer. The script and dialogue are so tight and full of brilliant one-liners that the film screams for a second viewing which I will gladly oblige should the opportunity arise. Whit Stillman as a director goes from strength to strength and this is by far the best film he's ever directed.
Manchester by the Sea (2016)
Silence is often the most deafening sound.
Silence is often the most deafening sound. A loss can trigger the strongest of emotions. And there is nothing louder in this film than the quiet performances of its leads and virtually say everything especially in moments when no words are exchanged. I watched this one as part of the London Film Festival 2016 and it blew me away for its equal measures of heart, humour, love, despair and humanity. The casting is superb and deserve to scoop up the awards of the year in a story which even though one can guess from the start what is in its nucleus, we sit and admire the masterful director peel it off to gradually reveal an even richer and more layered core.
Mustang (2015)
Free spirit
Like the digits of a hand, these sisters are one. Their love and bond for one another is pure and complete brought closer together by the tragic loss of their parents and the harsh new realities of a life under the rule of the patriarchal and traditionalist uncle who sets out to arrange marriages for all of them as he fears the local society's judgement on their supposed transgressions which are amplified in his censorious mind. An emotively charged story unfolds in a film with truly mesmerising acting by all girls alike under the direction of what one would expect to be a master filmmaker yet only her first full feature film.