Category: Film
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Almost saved by great performances from the likes of Ryan Gosling and Ana de Amas, ultimately the Russo Brothers newest outing isn’t quite kicker we hoped for.
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The Sea Beast (2022) is Netflix’s latest animated film, and the fourth directorial effort from Chris Williams, following his work on Bolt, Big Hero 6, and co-directing Moana. The film, co-written with Nell Benjamin, feels like a spiritual successor to Williams’ Moana due to the stunning seafaring setting, clever emphasis on exploration, and yet another…
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Viewed on Saturday 28 May as press for the Cannes Film Festival 2022. Red and black. Blurred, distorted. A donkey and a woman. Going round in circles. Birdseye view, until the letters ‘E’ and ‘O’ flash intermittently. Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO (2022) opens with its titular donkey performing in a Polish circus, pre-empting his spiralling through…
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Viewed on Friday 27 May as press for the Cannes Film Festival 2022. Following the story of a mother and her two young sons – Rose (Annabelle Lengronne), Jean (Stéphane Bak) and Ernest (Ahmed Sylla) – Léonor Serraille’s Un Petit Frère (2022), follows the tight-knit lives of Ivory Coast migrants who move to Paris in…
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Viewed on Saturday 28 May as press for the Cannes Film Festival 2022. Childhood is a crazy whirlwind. It’s where the young mature, core memories are created, love blossoms… Friendship is, arguably, the glue that holds it all together, and Lukas Dhont’s Close (2022) is a sensitive glance into the fragile world that is growing-up.…
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Viewed at the World Premiere on Thursday 26 May as press for the Cannes Film Festival 2022. 450,000 Syrians have lost their lives to the civil conflict in Syria over the last decade following pro-democracy protests demanding President Assad’s resignation. When the government deployed excessive force in retaliation for the arrest and torture of teenage…
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Viewed on Thursday 26 May as press for the Cannes Film Festival 2022. A Busan family church, a baby box, and a seamster . . . a massive grin spread across my face as all these components are immediately thrust into a human-trafficking web of lies. Hirokazu Kore-eda has again taken the director’s baton with…
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It has been a full decade since Ethan Hawke and Scott Derrickson first collaborated on-screen for what is still considered one of the most frightening horror films of the 21st century with Sinister, alongside other modern classics like The Conjuring. Since then, Hawke has found himself in a range of projects in a range of positions – directing…
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Euan Cook offers an honest, and sometimes scathing, opinion on Stars at Noon – a must-read for all film-enthusiasts.
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Euan Cook offers a fascinating overview of Salam, a documentary made on the life-story of once-acclaimed French rapper, Diam’s, while also penetrating into certain concealed aspects of her life to document what Salam stands for.
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Unmissable, masterful, and one of the greatest sequels of all time; Jacob Hando sure has a lot to say about Top Gun: Maverick.
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Indian cinema is humongous. With more than 20 regional industries, it has transformed its global reputation as an enthralling entertainment industry both within and off the shores of India. Amid these variations within cinemas, three particular forms of cinema have stood apart in terms of gross film production and thematic experimentation: the film-industries of Bombay,…
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The latest MCU film has arrived- but does it live up to the madness of its title?
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Editor, Sam Pegg, interviews EFN’s Erifili Missiou about the film festival hoping to shake things up this year for emerging talent.