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BFI Film Festival Highlights
To celebrate it’s 60th Anniversary, we selected our favorite films that premiered at this years BFI Film Festival in London, including the non-fiction thriller “Kate Plays Christine,” a documentation of actress Kate Lyn Sheil in preparation to play Christine Chubbuck, a Florida newscaster who committed suicide live on air in 1974.
[October 14 2016] : art
BFI Film Festival highlights: Christine trailer by Antonio Campos
For his third feature film, Antonio Campos takes a notorious media event and turns it into a psychological thriller. The film shows the events before Christine Chubbuck’s suicide she committed live on television in 1974 and paints a picture where dreams, ambitions and self-disappointment clash. While Campos tries to navigate the reasons behind journalist’s dramatic decision, he is also telling a candid story about depression.
Purple will highlight some of the best films showing at this years BFI Film Festival in London to celebrate it’s 60th Anniversary. Click here to see more
[October 14 2016] : love
BFI Film Festival highlights: Being 17 trailer by André Téchiné
Young people on their quest for sexual identity are central characters of André Téchiné‘s drama – a story of classmates Damien and Thomas. Loosely based on the TV film New Wave by Gaël More, the story takes place over a year, with each school term launching a new chapter. As we gradually discover the underlying reasons for boys’ enmity, we can also rejoice the visual side of the film, set against the picturesque backdrop of The Pyrenees.
Purple will highlight some of the best films showing at this years BFI Film Festival in London to celebrate it’s 60th Anniversary. Click here to see more
[October 13 2016] : Television
BFI Film Festival highlights: American Honey Trailer by Andrea Arnold
Andrea Arnold travels to America on its quest to depict country’s contemporary subcultures. American Honey naturalistic language takes us on a highway trip with a group of teenage magazine sellers. Filtrated through a narrative lens of a 18-year-old Star who joins the crew, one of the film’s great assets is performance given by Sasha Lane – a college freshman from Texas with no previous acting experience making her debut on a big screen.
Purple will highlight some of the best films showing at this years BFI Film Festival in London to celebrate it’s 60th Anniversary. Click here to see more
[October 13 2016] : love
BFI Film Festival highlights: Grave Trailer by Julia Ducournau
Julia Ducournau‘s first feature film is a story of a 16-year-old Justine following in her strict-vegetarian parents’ footsteps. Starting a veterinary college, she finds herself surrounded by blank, emotionless space, where drastic ceremonies of blood baths and raw meat eating can happen any time at night. Ducournau develops a unique script and explores femininity in its earliest stage.
Purple will highlight some of the best films showing at this years BFI Film Festival in London to celebrate it’s 60th Anniversary. Click here to see more
[October 12 2016] : art
BFI Film Festival highlights: Juste la fin du monde Trailer by Xavier Dolan
Xavier Dolan‘s complex, emotional characters enter a new melodrama. The winner of Grand Prix at the International Cannes Film Festival, Juste la fin du monde was based on Jean-Luc Lagarce’s play telling a story of a terminally ill writer Louis, as he re-enters his family home where frustrations of the past revive. Dolan’s claustrophobic close-ups and dark scenes make the picture an unsettling examination of human psyche and isolation.
Purple will highlight some of the best films showing at this years BFI Film Festival in London to celebrate it’s 60th Anniversary. Click here to see more
[October 12 2016] : travel
BFI Film Festival highlights: Safari Trailer by Ulrich Seidl
Ulrich Seidl, the writer of the provocative “Paradise Trilogy”, looks into the life of African tourist hunters. The vivid documentary shows a Namibian hunting lodge and its Austrian visitors. Blinded by trophies and stunned by the sound of rifles, they set off into the wild to pursue most basic instincts. After the day of entertainment, the dirty work of animal skinning is done by black assistants, as the film turns into a depiction of Western indulgence and social order.
Purple will highlight some of the best films showing at this years BFI Film Festival in London to celebrate it’s 60th Anniversary. Click here to see more
[October 11 2016] : love
BFI Film Festival highlights: Moonlight Trailer by Barry Jenkins
A tale of self-discovery and self-acceptance, Moonlight follows life of a young black man growing up in the rough neighborhood of Miami. The topic of LGBT people of color rarely makes film plots, this is why Barry Jenkins‘ work is so relevant. Based on the play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by Tarell Alvin McCraney, the film is divided into three separate chapters – each reflecting upon a different life stage.
Purple will highlight some of the best films showing at this years BFI Film Festival in London to celebrate it’s 60th Anniversary. Click here to see more
[October 11 2016] : love
BFI Film Festival highlights: ELLE Trailer by Paul Verhoeven
Paul Verhoeven‘s psychological thriller is his first film in 10 years, since the premiere of Black Book. Starring Isabelle Huppert, it tells a story of Michèle, a head of a leading video game company and ruthless character, who gets attacked by an unknown assailant. As she decides to track him down, she finds herself in the middle of a mysterious game.
Purple will highlight some of the best films showing at this years BFI Film Festival in London to celebrate it’s 60th Anniversary. Click here to see more
