THE DAVID PARKINSON FILM BLOG

(Reviews of Sunlight; The House With Laughing Windows; and A Tooth Fairy Tale) SUNLIGHT. Although he directed a couple of plays for the stage, Tom Conti never got round to directing a feature film. Now, having cut her teeth with the documentary, His Master's Voice (2012), and the short, Living With Monkey (2014), ventriloquist-cum-actor daughter, Nina Conti, makes her feature bow behind the camera with Sunlight. When Roy Belvedere (Shenoah Allen) started dangling from a rope

(Reviews of Souleymane's Story; Madly; Good Boy; and Night of the Zoopocalypse) SOULEYMANE'S STORY. Following a series of documentary shorts inspired by his time in Vietnam, Boris Lojkine made his feature debut with Hope (2014), a docurealist drama about a Cameroonian boy and a Nigerian girl crossing the Sahara en route to Europe. Five years later, he produced Camille (2019), a biopic about photojournalist Camille Lepage, who was killed in 2014 while covering the civil war in

(An overview of the 69th BFI London Film Festival, 8-19 October 2025) WATCH THIS SPACE

(Reviews of Plainclothes; Urchin; and The Partisan) PLAINCLOTHES. Carmen Emmi started making films around the age of 14 and recalls...

(Reviews of Paul & Paulette Take a Bath; Better Days; Mr Blake At Your Service!; A Night Like This; Dead of Winter; and The Story of...

(Reviews of Happyend) HAPPYEND. Having captured his father's farewell performance in the deeply moving documentary, Ryuichi Sakamoto:...

(Reviews of Big Boys; Ebony & Ivory; and Dogs At the Opera) BIG BOYS. Corey Sherman has spent a decade making shorts such as Life-ish...

(Reviews of Christy; and Islands) CHRISTY. A very different Cork to the one seen in Peter Foott's The Young Offenders (2016) and its...

(Reviews of Sorry, Baby; and Row) SORRY, BABY. Encouraged by Moonlight director, Barry Jenkins, Eva Victor wrote their directorial debut...

(Reviews of Measures For a Funeral; Little Trouble Girls; and In the Nguyen Kitchen) MEASURES FOR A FUNERAL. Deragh Campbell has played...

(Reviews of The Regulars; The Ceremony; Bambi: A Tale of Life in the Woods; and Super-Charlie) THE REGULARS. Anyone hearing that Fil...

(Reviews of The Kingdom; and Heidi: Rescue of the Lynx) THE KINGDOM. Two very different sides of Corsica emerge in Jean-François Richet's...

(Reviews of Late Shift; 40 Acres; and Young Hearts) LATE SHIFT. Swiss director Petra Volpe has been making films since the turn of the...

(Reviews of What Does That Nature Say to You; Oslo Stories Trilogy: Dreams; and Savages) WHAT DOES THAT NATURE SAY TO YOU. The greatest...

(Reviews of Dying; and Zero) DYING. German director Matthias Glasner and actress Corinna Harfouch go back a long way. She took the lead...

(Reviews of Four Letters of Love; and The Road to Patagonia) FOUR LETTERS OF LOVE. Having previously explored the complexities of love...

(Reviews of The Other Way Round; The Shrouds; and Modì, Three Days on the Wing of Madness) THE OTHER WAY ROUND. The Truebas are the first...

(Reviews of An Ordinary Case; and Jungle Trouble) AN ORDINARY CASE. There's something of an overlap between Daniel Auteuil and the...

(Reviews of From Hilde, With Love; Red Path; Chicken Town; and Sudan, Remember Us) FROM HILDE, WITH LOVE. Several critics have noted the...

(Reviews of Jane Austen Wrecked My Life; The Last Journey; A Sip of Irish; and Holloway) JANE AUSTEN WRECKED MY LIFE. Considering that 16...