Neil Young Festivals

Oct 1, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Neil Young Festivals |Neil Young |Jessica Kiang

Reviewed from the 2024 San Sebastian Film Festival. Red is the warmest colour in Albert Serra’s Afternoons of Solitude (Tardes de soledad), an impressionistic and intimate documentary featuring Peruvian wunderkind torero Andrés Roca Rey which is effectively A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bullfighter. The subtly modulated hues which distinguished Serra’s Tahiti-set drama Pacifiction (2022) – a symphony in deliquescent pastels – are again here in evidence.

Sep 26, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Neil Young Festivals |Neil Young |Sophia Satchell-Baeza |Lillian Crawford

Reviewed from the 2024 San Sebastian Film Festival. Faithfully adapting Robert Harris’s 2016 page-turner about a fictional papal election, director Edward Berger and screenwriter Peter Straughan have constructed a sturdy frame within which their outstanding ensemble of actors can excel. Conclave is an engrossing ecclesiastical hoot which elegantly compresses a prestige-miniseries’ worth of meaty intrigue and lively incident into two brisk hours.