Poppy Field – BFI Flare Film Festival Review
by Nathan Osborne In another debut feature scored by BFI Flare for its 2021 edition, Eigen Jebeleanu’s Poppy Field tackles a man’s balance between masculinity and homosexuality in this Romanian feature. When the screening of a queer film is interrupted … Continue reading Poppy Field – BFI Flare Film Festival Review
Cowboys – BFI Flare 2021 Review
by Nathan Osborne Writer-director Anna Kerrigan tells a moving and tender tale in Cowboys, a directorial debut which announces a strong new talent and offers some much-needed, positive trans representation to our screens. When recently separated parents clash on how … Continue reading Cowboys – BFI Flare 2021 Review
Broadcast Signal Intrusion – SXSW 2021 Review
by Anton Bitel Broadcast Signal Intrusion opens with a video recording that resolves into a dream. A woman runs happily through a field, and a man pursues her with a camera. Then she stops, swaying in the mist, her face … Continue reading Broadcast Signal Intrusion – SXSW 2021 Review
Stray – Review
by Alistair Ryder On paper, Stray looks like nothing more than the canine lover’s much needed answer to the 2016 film Kedi. That surprise documentary smash followed some of the cats who roam the streets of Istanbul, speaking with the … Continue reading Stray – Review
Language Lessons – SXSW 2021 Review
by Cheyenne Bunsie We don’t want Zoom films. Already a year into staring dead-eyed into the camera and letting the fifth ‘100% necessary’ meeting of the day wash over us. We know that having our camera on is about being … Continue reading Language Lessons – SXSW 2021 Review
The Drover’s Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson – SXSW 2021 Review
by Jordan King To call The Drover’s Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson a passion project for Indigenous Australian multi-hyphenate Leah Purcell would be an understatement. Having been struck by the stoic protagonist of Henry Lawson’s late-19th century short story … Continue reading The Drover’s Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson – SXSW 2021 Review
