Looted first published by EyeforFilm for its World Première at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2019 Rene Pannevis’ feature debut begins with one variety of wake and ends with another. The first is the kind that trails behind a ship, seen from above as we hear Oswald (Tom Fisher) narrating how he was at sea…
A Good Woman Is Hard To Find cements director Abner Pastoll’s already secure reputation as a sure hand with character-driven genre cinema, following his Franco-English psychochiller Road Games (Fausse Route, 2014) and twisty chase short Getaway Driver (2017). This time around, working from a screenplay by Ronan Blaney, Pastoll merges the social realism of Ken…
Review first published by Grolsch FilmWorks The Forgotten opens not with an image, but a sound. The screen is blank, but we hear a woman’s terrified call to the emergency services from Flat 23, Drayton House, on the Farlow Estate: her drunk husband is trying to get in, may even already be inside, and he…
Northwest (Nordvest) first published by Film4 Synopsis: From the co-director of R (2010) and the producers of A Hijacking (2012) comes this social realist gangster drama set on the mean streets of a Copenhagen district. Review: In Nordvest, a multicultural working class district of Copenhagen, 18-year-old skinhead Casper (Gustav Dyekjær Giese) is a mass of conflicts and…