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Film Review: This is Not a Movie

Robert Fisk is the embodiment of a certain generation of foreign correspondent. Privately educated, he started out reporting on The Troubles in Northern Ireland before eventually becoming the Middle East…

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LFF Review: The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao

Whilst siblings are often close, there’s something rather unusual about the bonds between sisters. A connection which, despite being invisible, is incredibly hard to break. An understanding and intimacy which…

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LFF Review: So Long, My Son

When the Communist Party decided to relax the one-child policy in 2013, and subsequently changed the national family planning to two children per couple, it marked the end of a…

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LFF Review: Burning Cane

There has been a reckoning over the last few years and finally we’re beginning to see black voices being given the opportunity to make the films they want to make.…

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LFF Review: Adoration

We all remember our first love. Even though it probably ended in tears, lies, betrayals and recriminations in the playground. However, as we go through life those bad memories seem…

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LFF Review: Martin Eden

Jack London was one of the most important and influential American novelists of his generation. His writings embodied the thirst for adventure which epitomised the era but also were a…

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LFF Review: The Whistlers

The Romanian new wave is arguably the most interesting current movement in modern cinema. Of those directors working under this banner, Corneliu Porumboiu is possibly the most interesting. With award-winning…

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LFF Review: Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

Whilst, to the outside world, the movie business might seem full of glitz and glamour, there’s a lot of sweat and tears which go into making a film. Much of…

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LFF Review: Only the Animals

The French have a knack when it comes to stylish and sexy thrillers. There’s something about the Gallic temperament which provides for scintillating and electric cinema. Over the years we’ve…

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LFF Review: Talking About Trees

The cinema of Sudan is almost completely unknown on a world stage. Whilst not overly surprising for an impoverished African country, this hasn’t always been the case. Years of oppressive…

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