Nicolas Rapold Festivals

4 weeks ago | bfi.org.uk | Nicolas Rapold Festivals |Nicolas Rapold |Jonathan Romney |Christina Newland

Josh O’Connor stars as a wannabe criminal who fumbles a small-time art robbery in Reichardt’s ingenious evocation of 1970s suburban Massachusetts. 29 May 2025Reviewed from the 2025 Cannes Film FestivalHeist movies run on the mechanics of escape and the thrill of getting away with it, but Kelly Reichardt’s latest detoured story brilliantly turns the genre on its head.

1 month ago | bfi.org.uk | Nicolas Rapold Festivals |Nicolas Rapold |Henry Miller |Mark Asch

The American director goes behind the scenes of Breathless’ historic production for a film that embraces Jean-Luc Godard’s cinephile passion and formal imagination. 23 May 2025Reviewed from the 2025 Cannes Film Festival“The best way to criticise a film is to make one,” runs the famous Godard axiom, and perhaps the same goes for loving one, where the criticism takes the form of a thoroughgoing attention to all the finer points.

Mar 1, 2025 | bfi.org.uk | Nicolas Rapold Festivals |Nicolas Rapold |Jessica Kiang |Sam Wigley

Reviewed from the 2025 Berlin International Film FestivalRichard Linklater’s Blue Moon portrays the long goodbye of a great American lyricist, Lorenz Hart, told through the filmmaker’s mastery of creative time frames and poignant reflection. As witty and alert as its fading subject, it takes place within a Manhattan bar on the opening night of Oklahoma!, the inescapable 1943 classic by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II and notably notHart, Rodgers’s former partner.

Feb 23, 2025 | bfi.org.uk | Nicolas Rapold Festivals |Nicolas Rapold |Rachel Pronger |Sam Wigley

Romanian director Radu Jude's spiky social satire about a bailiff who faces a crisis of conscience when one of her evictees dies by suicide may be his most radical and despairing film yet. 22 February 2025Reviewed from the 2025 Berlin International Film FestivalIt’s a pleasure watching a director hit their stride and find a sure form for each film, and in his latest feature, Radu Jude takes a different route from the crazy train of Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2023).

Feb 13, 2025 | bfi.org.uk | Nicolas Rapold Festivals |Nicolas Rapold |Rachel Pronger |Tara Judah

Reviewed from the 2025 Sundance Film Festival In 1983, Elizabeth Bouvia, a 26-year-old American with cerebral palsy, entered a hospital for the purpose of ending her life, but her attempt was rebuffed in the courts. In Life After, Reid Davenport revisits the case and embarks on an insightful consideration that braids together philosophical, personal, and political implications, to create a film essay on disabled experience.