By: Sole Marques
Our top picks from London film festival 2016.
60th BFI London Film Festival has arrived with all kind of genres and we know it is not going to leave you indifferent. Here, we have selected some films that have caught our eye so far.
BFI Festival is going to be opened with an incredible interracial romance that changes the world. Director, Amma Asante, takes interracial love as a great contemporary relevance, her film A United Kingdom celebrates the triumph of love and intelligence over intolerance and oppression.
Among the top picks from bfi London film festival we find Their finest, starring Gemma Arterton, which will be in The Mayors of London´s Gala. This film is an adaptation of Lissa Evans´ novel Their Finest Hour. This drama based in some events during the WWII shows the role of women, the work opportunities available for them and how women’s activism started by that time.
If you are interested in memoirs and biography we offer you two interested ones. Confessions to the mirror is a re-imagination of the life and work of Claude Cahun based on her personal incomplete memoir, from childhood to imprisonment by the Nazis. It seems to be one of the most popular and expected films in the festival due to its mysterious and fantastic background. Also, David Lynch: The art of life is going to show a combination of home movies, stock footage, moody artworks and observations of him working on his paintings and sculptures. This movie is going to be both an immersive experience for art lovers.
For the Headline Gala has been difficult to choose due to the long list of films to watch. We have chosen the film we think everybody is going to talk about. The cast of the movie is headed by Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, both play a romantic musical based in old-school glamour. La La Land sends the heart racing and will have you dancing out of the cinema even if the plot goes through bitter-sweet moments.
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