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BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL - 2024
LFF 2024 Highlights
Even though my time at the 2024 BFI London Film Festival was short and more on the industry side, the lineup really stuck with me!
BLITZ opened the festival with a punch with Steve McQueen’s wartime epic told through the eyes of a young boy navigating London during the Blitz. It was intense, yet tender too, a reminder of how much strength people can find during chaos. Saoirse Ronan delivers an emotional performance, and the chemistry with the young revelation Elliott Heffernan is unmatched.
Then there was THE PIANO LESSON, Malcolm Washington’s adaptation of August Wilson’s play. Watching John David Washington, Danielle Deadwyler, and Samuel L. Jackson bring this story of family, memory, and inheritance to life felt like being invited into someone else’s living room; it was very intimate and powerful.
A REAL PAIN offered something completely different: a road trip between two cousins trying to reconcile with the past. Funny, bittersweet, and unafraid to confront historical wounds, it was the kind of film that sneaks up on you emotionally with Kieran Culkin's talent and the dialogue by Jesse Eisenberg.
On a darker note, THE ASSESSMENT took us to a creepy near-future where people have to pass a “fitness” test just to become parents. Alicia Vikander and Elizabeth Olsen brought so much intensity, and the tension was real. We suggest checking out this review for more details: The Assessment.
Motherhood showed up in all sorts of ways at LFF 2024: JOY celebrated the women behind IVF, FOUR MOTHERS mixed family, laughs, and Irish charm, and NIGHTBITCH, with Amy Adams, turned the chaos of parenting into something wild and surreal.
To end with LAST SWIM, a film that follows a British-Iranian teen figuring out school, family, and mental health. A small story that sticks with you after all.
LFF 2024 reminded me how special festivals are. Getting to see so many different perspectives in such a short time felt like a real privilege. From big epics to small, personal stories, each film left me with something to think about and carry home.
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