Happening is an emotional, race against time for a teenage girl in 1960s France as she battles against the patriarchy for bodily autonomy.
Clemency is, astonishingly, the first time that a black female director has won the top prize at the Sundance Film Festival
Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a mesmerising, spellbinding, moving chef-d’oeuvre which will awaken every core of your being with its sensuality and moody undertones.
Whether this was a conscious decision or a successful co-incidence but having the release of the 4K restoration of the timeless classic Don’t Look Now on the same release date as Ari Aster’s Midsommar was cinema magic at its best! Watching the two films back to back, the inevitable comparisons could be drawn easily and even from the similarity of the weather based opening scenes of the two films, the influence of Don’t Look Now on Midsommar, as a predecessor, is obvious.
After missing the screenings of Birds of Passage during the 2018 London Film Festival, I was fortunate to watch this film at a preview for the Reclaim the Frame project by the charity, Birds’ Eye View.
