LFF Surprise Fim – Tuner Review
Covering the London Film Festival has been one of the greatest pleasures I have ever experienced.
Covering the London Film Festival has been one of the greatest pleasures I have ever experienced.
It’s become no extraordinary occurrence for British feature debuts to make waves at international film festivals (think Charlotte Regan’s Scrapper or Molly Manning Walker’s How to Have Sex, Luna Carmoon’s Hoard or more recently, Harris Dickinson’s Urchin), but there is nowhere better to survey the next round of standout British debuts than the London Film Festival. This year, the best debuts took us from Lagos to Luton, dealing with violent prisons and BDSM-biker gangs, with many offering a fresh approach to cinematic form.
Sophy Romvari’s Blue Heron tackles a familiar question: If I could go back and work out exactly why and how a bad event in my life happened, would it make it hurt less? Would it make moving on easier? Set in Vancouver in 1995, Blue Heron follows Sasha- first as a child (Eylul Guven) and then as a young woman (Amy Zimmer)—as she experiences and then processes the behaviour of her oldest brother Jeremy (Edik Beddoes).