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Unspoken 2024
A conceptual moment in search of cinematic justification, which it never truly finds. Said climax is effective in both narrative subversion and character impact, but the surrounding film is tame in aesthetic, lame in humour and oddly dated in both. Lead Charlie Korman acquits himself well to provide some emotional threads, but most around him - particularly the adults! - aren’t generally able to give the necessary grounding in a tangible, relevant community.
🎞️ BFI Southbank
🎟️ BFI Flare 2024 -
All of Us Strangers 2023
This film sits in my stomach. It gnaws at my heart. It tortures and comforts me at once.
🎟️ Q&A with Andrew Haigh
🎞️ Clapham Picturehouse, London
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In from the Side 2022
Sure, they’re nominally attractive, but things feel barely thought out beyond that, missing almost every passing opportunity to enrich itself. The rugby setting is confusingly deployed as some sort of proxy for a social class strata, but even this isn’t used in a fulfilling Romeo and Juliet scenario.
The personal conflicts at the film’s centre seem awkwardly stranded between hetero traditionalism and homo polygamy, but not in a way that adds to the conflict; instead, it drives an essential unlikeability in…