Reviews - OBSCURAE

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The Chronology of Water (Review) | BFI LFF 2025

Based on the 2011 memoir by American writer Lidia Yuknavitch, Kristen Stewart's debut is more experimental than narrative – and does more to honour than it does to analyse.

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Instagram is ✨Cinema: More Life (Review) | BFI LFF 2025

Where theatre meets Instagram Live, you can make cinema, and director Bradley Banton has found a unique angle on the hangout film here.

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I saw the Face of God in the Jet Wash (Short Film Review) | BFI LFF 2025

In homage to the short, this review is written in a similar style to how the film is narrated. In 2019 I had decided that Music was evading me, and become too heavy a craft considering it had birthed my career as an Audio Engineer, and was now somewhat badly

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I saw this film again and it actually got better: 'The Testament of Ann Lee' | BFI London Film Festival 2025

"This is a story about how pacifism is political. How gender, race, religion are all precursors for violence, and how the denial of that violence is a radical act. However, the story opens up further, like a deep network of roots underground, the more you observe."

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Jay Kelly & Boomer Regrets | BFI London Film Festival 2025

Baumbach meditates on sacrifice, career and family, in a way only a man who's old and over the hill can. (Sorry Noah, but it's true.)

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Luca Guadagnino just gets it™ - After the Hunt (Review) | BFI London Film Festival 205

In an intense display of cognitive skill, an old man managed to fool everyone into thinking he was dunking on Gen-Z, and then excoriated his fellow olds.

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🇬🇧🇪🇸El Cautivo: And Historians Will Call Them...

"The thin line between reality and fiction is not only acknowledged but embraced by the film’s storytelling structure as we follow the events of Cervantes’ time held captive in Algiers..."