Ela Bittencourt Festivals

Sep 18, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Ela Bittencourt Festivals |Ela Bittencourt |Nicolas Rapold |Adam Nayman

Director Sarah Friedland explores the human mind in all its frailness and glory with her exquisite drama about a woman with dementia adjusting to a new life at an assisted living facility. 17 September 2024Reviewed from the 2024 Venice International Film FestivalIn the opening scene of Sarah Friedland’s wondrous narrative feature debut, Familiar Touch (2024), a regal older woman, Ruth (Kathleen Chalfant), serves her signature dish – a meticulously mounted sandwich – to her much younger visitor.

May 21, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Ela Bittencourt |Gilbert Adair |Philip Concannon |Ela Bittencourt Festivals

Reviewed from the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. In Yorgos Lanthimos’s comic epic fantasy Poor Things (2023), Emma Stone was electrifying as a Frankensteinian creature, Bella Baxter – a deceased pregnant woman, reanimated with the transplanted brain of her foetus. From a laboratory to a world voyage and peril, then back again to practise medicine, Bella’s rapid development defied biological expectations and societal norms.