This film in many ways mirrors the director’s own experience, in that when Hong Khaou was a baby his Cambodian Chinese family fled from the Khmer rouge in Cambodia, initially to Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City).
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15 year old Rocks (Bukky Bakray) is a sociable East End teenager, who enjoys her school and her diverse circle of friends, including her bestie Sumaya (Kosar Ali).
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Although borrowing its title from Victor Hugo’s novel, this is a contemporary film, set in Montfermeil suburb north of Paris, where Hugo wrote and set part of his story and where many members of France’s socially deprived black and Muslim immigrant communities now live.
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Misbehaviour is in the tradition of other cinema versions of idiosyncratically British events in our social and political history such as The Full Monty, Calendar Girls and Pride.
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The film describes itself as being inspired by Peter Carey’s Booker prize winning novel and admits in an opening statement that this is not the true history of the Kelly gang.
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Directed by Peter Cattaneo of The Full Monty fame this is very much a feel-good movie. Another of those films based on real events, this time it’s the story of the first ever choir created by military wives.
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The film holds the attention through its sheer pace and theatricality, though it’s a technique that in some ways keeps the audience at a distance.
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Austrian director Jessica Hausner’s first English language film has a strong cast and an intriguing, genre defying story, which combines science fiction with psychological drama in a most unusual way.
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Radioactive is based on a graphic novel, in this case a fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize winning scientist Marie Curie.
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This wide ranging and adventurous collection of twenty short films was initially intended as a response to the uncertainty of the post Brexit world.
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