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
Ammonite – Review
by Chris Connor Francis Lee’s 2017 God’s Own Country has won him plaudits the world over, opening up the Yorkshire landscape for a flood of tourists and ensuring he is a director to be reckoned with. His latest film is … Continue reading Ammonite – 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
No Ordinary Man – BFI Flare 2021 Review
by Jordan King The creation of LGBTQIA+ cinema, particularly documentarian works, is an act of restoration and reclamation. The history of marginalised communities is so often found to have been erased or written in phobic terms by those on the … Continue reading No Ordinary Man – 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
