Film Festivals 2010
Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
8/10
Director: Banksy
Starring: Thierry Guetta, Banksy
This is the inside story of Street Art - a brutal and revealing account of what happens when fame, money and vandalism collide. A riveting documentary... Read more
White Material (2009)
7/10
Director: Claire Denis
Starring: Christopher Lambert, Isabelle Huppert, Michel Subor, Isaach De Bankole
Isabelle Huppert delivers an intense performance in this gripping drama about a French woman who refuses to abandon her family's African coffee planta... Read more
Mammuth (2010)
6.1/10
Director: Benoit Delepine, Gustave Kervern
Starring: Gerard Depardieu, Isabelle Adjani, Yolande Moreau
In this odd but emotion-packed French comedy, Gerard Depardieu plays a recent retiree who discovers his company is attempting to welsh on his pension.... Read more
Four Lions (2010)
7.3/10
Director: Chris Morris
Starring: Arsher Ali, Kayvan Novak, Riz Ahmed, Nigel Lindsay, Adeel Akhtar
A black comedy directed by satirist Chris Morris, 'Four Lions' sends up a group of inept jihadists and would-be suicide bombers. Riz Ahmed plays Omar,... Read more
A Prophet (2009)
7.9/10
Director: Jacques Audiard
Starring: Niels Arestrup, Tahar Rahim
Acclaimed as one of the best films of 2009, 'A Prophet' ('Un prophete') details the gritty prison career of nineteen-year-old French-Arab Malik (Tahar... Read more
Father of My Children (2009)
6.7/10
Director: Mia Hansen-Love
Starring: Chiara Caselli, Alice de Lencquesaing, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing
One of the great discoveries at Cannes (Winner - Un Certain Regard - Special Jury Prize), as well as New Directors/New Films and the Toronto Film Fest... Read more
The Concert (2009)
7.6/10
Director: Radu Mihaileanu
Starring: Miou-Miou, Melanie Laurent, Alexsey Guskov, Lionel Abelanski, Laurent Bateau, D...
25 years ago, Andrei Filipov was a prodigy - once the celebrated conductor of the Bolshoi Orchestra, the greatest orchestra in Russia. Today he works... Read more
Still Walking (2008)
8/10
Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Starring: Kazuya Takahashi, Yui Natsukawa, Hiroshi Abe
In "Still Walking", the Yokoyama family come together to celebrate the memory of their youngest son, Junpei, who died fifteen years ago while rescuing... Read more
Blessed (2009)
6.8/10
Director: Ana Kokkinos
Starring: Deborra-Lee Furness, Frances O'Connor, Miranda Otto, Victoria Haralabidou, Willi...
A tender and stirring portrayal of a single day from two very different perspectives. Seven children wander the streets in an urban odyssey but not al... Read more
A Somewhat Gentle Man (2010)
6.9/10
Director: Hans Petter Moland
Starring: Bjorn Sundquist, Stellan Skarsgard, Gard B Eidsvold, Bjorn Floberg
Reluctantly discharged from prison on parole after 12 years for murder, Ulrik is ordered by the kingpin of his old gang to settle some scores with a s... Read more