Queen of Hearts (Dronningen, Denmark-Sweden 2019)
Queen of Hearts is currently streaming on MUBI in the UK, but is also available on Sky and Apple TV/iTunes. It appears to have been released by Thunderbird in the UK in February of this year so...
View ArticleAbout Endlessness (Om det oändliga, Sweden-Germany-Norway-France 2019)
Now streaming on MUBI, this Roy Andersson film appeared at Venice in 2019 and has been joined on the international arthouse circuit by a documentary about Andersson’s work, Being a Human Person...
View ArticleI Remember You (Ég man þig, Iceland 2017)
This Icelandic horror film was released in the UK a few months after its Iceland release. I don’t remember noticing the release (StudioCanal straight to DVD?) and I also missed its BBC transmission....
View ArticleLights in the Dusk (Laitakaupungin valot, Finland-Germany-France-Italy-Sweden...
This is the final film in the trilogy about ‘losers’ from Finnish writer-director Aki Kaurismäki following Drifting Clouds (1996) and The Man Without a Past (2002). In some ways it might be the darkest...
View ArticleTove (Finland-Sweden 2020)
Still not comfortable about returning to cinemas but wanting to see a new/recent release I watched this film streaming on BFI Player. I knew little about the Moomins and even less about their creator...
View ArticleA Second Chance (En chance til, Denmark-Sweden 2014)
Susanne Bier has had a 30 year directorial career so far, reaching a prominent position in Scandinavian cinema with Open Hearts (Denmark 2002) and going on to move into ‘international’ cinema (i.e....
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