Elizabeth Sussex

Dec 5, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Gayle Sequeira |Savina Petkova |Saffron Maeve |Elizabeth Sussex

During the 2021 Covid lockdown, a group of out-of-work actors staged a blunder-filled production of Hamlet inside the world of Grand Theft Auto. Now they’ve levelled up with an endearing documentary about the process. 4 December 2024All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

Dec 5, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Savina Petkova |Saffron Maeve |Elizabeth Sussex |Jason Anderson

“What fresh hell awaits you today?” sighs a weary toddler mum in front of the bathroom mirror. With a grunt of habitual defeat, Mother (Amy Adams) drapes a stained, oversized shirt over the hairy bump on her lower back, noting its existence but ignoring that it weirdly resembles a tail. The protagonist of Marielle Heller’s Nightbitch is overtired and under-appreciated and, as in Rachel Yonder’s best-selling novel of 2021, on which the film is based, sometimes turns into a dog.

Sep 7, 2023 | bfi.org.uk | Simran HansReviews |Simran Hans |Saffron Maeve |Elizabeth Sussex

Towards the end of Celine Song’s Past Lives, two old friends wait for a cab in front of a bright blue garage door. In the two minutes it takes for a car to arrive, both everything, and nothing happens. Writer and director Song is perhaps more attuned to rhythm of dialogue than most: like Nora Moon (Greta Lee), the protagonist of this feature debut, she made her name as a playwright. But Song is also sharply aware of the power of the unsaid, of what can be articulated through pauses and gestures.