Things are cranking up as the festival season begins to segue into awards season, so there are a lot of screenings in the diary these days for films that have made a mark somewhere but are yet to be released to general audiences. I caught up with one of the biggies this week, Cristian Mungiu's Palme d'Or winner
Fjord, starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve. It's a stunner - provocative and thoughtful as it explores religion and culture.
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There was also the biopic
Tenzing, tracing the life of the Sherpa who with Edmund Hillary achieved the first summit of Mt Everest. It's a beautifully made film, with terrific performances by Genden Phuntsok, Tom Hiddleston and Willem Dafoe. It was also nice to attend a reception with the cast and crew. Other films this week included the haunting thriller
Child, a strikingly well-made film from Luxembourg, and the gently observant Spanish drama
The Portuguese House. There were also a couple of docs: more mountaineering in the hugely involving
The Last First: Winter K2 and the fascinating, important
Kikuyu Land, exploring the legacy of colonialism in Kenya. I also saw live performances of
Deepfake at Sadler's Wells East and
Flamenc Oh!! at the Peacock theatre.
Coming up this next week, I'll be watching Mikey Madison in the sequel
The Social Reckoning, Mahershala Ali in
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, Mark Ruffalo in
Being Heumann, Lesley Manville in
Winter of the Crow, Ryusuke Hamaguchi's award-winning
All of a Sudden, a French comedy titled
Comédie Française and a live performance of Acosta Danza's
Cuban Baroque.
