Nicolas Rapold Festivals

1 month ago | 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.

2 months ago | 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).

2 months ago | 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.

2 months ago | bfi.org.uk | Nicolas Rapold Festivals |Nicolas Rapold |Jason Anderson |Leigh Singer

Reviewed from the 2025 Sundance Film FestivalIt’s been a full 17 years since Mary Bronstein’s crackling debut feature, and the long wait has filtered into the simmering anxieties and ambient aggression of her full-on follow-up. Piercingly funny and far from ingratiating, If I Had Legs, I’d Kick You enters the subjective orbit of a Montauk therapist, Linda (Rose Byrne), as she takes care of her sick daughter in a woeful motel while her boat-captain husband is away.

Sep 29, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Nicolas Rapold Festivals |Nicolas Rapold |Kim Newman

Reviewed from the 2024 Venice International Film FestivalAs a band, Pavement seems to invite an alternative approach to the usual potted-history-with-testimonials rock doc, and Alex Ross Perry has fully taken up the challenge.