Ariane Labed speaks about her background as a dancer and why she sees directing as a natural extension of her work as an actress.
Film Festivals
Sundance ’20 review: Jumbo and Objectum Sexuality
Noémie Merlant shines as a woman in love with a fairground ride, but Jumbo lacks psychological insight into the real phenomenon of Objectum Sexuality.
Sundance ’20 Review: Summer White (Blanco de Verano)
Rodrigo Ruiz Patterson’s Summer White is a haunting story about a toxic mother-son relationship that gets interrupted by her new beau.
Sundance ’20 review: Surge
The sound design in Surge submerges us in a fractured mind, but that doesn’t save the film from feelings like Ben Whishaw’s discarded Joker audition tape.
Sundance ’20 Review: Cuties (Mignonnes)
Maïmouna Doucouré’s Cuties is an often compelling crowd-pleaser, if somewhat under-baked, which looks at how girls end up becoming over-sexualized at a young age.
From funny shit to midnight madness: The best shorts of LSFF 2020
Orla Smith picks eight great film from the 2020 London Short Film Festival (LSFF), one of the funnest film festivals in the UK.