Giovanni Marchini Camia

1 month ago | bfi.org.uk | Henry Miller |Mark Asch |Jonathan Romney |Giovanni Marchini Camia |Henry Miller

In what is probably his final outing as Ethan Hunt, Tom Cruise squares up against AI in a series of spectacular set-pieces in the sky and sea. 23 May 2025Ethan Hunt’s adversary in the eighth and final (?) Mission: Impossible is AI, but his nemesis, all along, has been gravity. The first he will gladly destroy, taking the internet with it, but the other he has kept coming back to, most memorably in the ‘black vault’ at Langley in the first film and the Burj Khalifa sequence in the fourth.

1 month ago | bfi.org.uk | Giovanni Marchini Camia |Mark Asch |Jonathan Romney |John Bleasdale

Reviewed from the 2025 Cannes Film FestivalHaving already proved himself a virtuoso of scene-setting openers with Aquarius (2016) and Bacurau (2019), Kleber Mendonça Filho pulls off a hattrick with The Secret Agent. A vivid yellow VW Beetle drives into a rural petrol station while titles inform us that we’re in Brazil in 1977, “a time of great mischief”. Not far from the pumps, a dead body lies under a sheet of cardboard and a swarm of flies.

1 month ago | bfi.org.uk | Jonathan Romney |Mark Asch |Giovanni Marchini Camia |John Bleasdale

The Icelandic drama When the Light Breaks – the original, more succinct title is Ljósbrot, ‘refraction’ – is built around a simple question. How can a person deal with the loss of a loved one when circumstances demand that they hide the extent of their emotion? The quandary is especially painful when it affects someone of college age, still beginning to grapple with life’s harsher emotional challenges, even while presenting themselves as mature and unbreakably robust.

1 month ago | bfi.org.uk | Katie McCabeReviews |Katie McCabe |Alex Davidson |Giovanni Marchini Camia

When the Irish architect and furniture designer Eileen Gray created her first building, a modernist villa in the Côte d’Azur, she coded a romantic gesture into its name: E.1027. It’s significant that she began by asserting her own name, E for Eileen, as the rest is a fusion of two lovers: numbers for her initials, and for that of her partner, the French architecture critic Jean Badovici.

1 month ago | bfi.org.uk | Alex Davidson |Giovanni Marchini Camia |Jane Giles

In this playful performance film, Icelandic singer Emilíana Torrini performs a set of songs inspired by a collection of real-life 1960s love letters discovered after the recipient’s death in 2018. 11 May 2025In an era when romantic missives have shrunk to the late-night ‘U up?’ text, it’s easy to see how a suitcase of elaborate love letters from the 1960s and 70s fired the imagination of singer Emilíana Torrini.