THE APPRENTICE has a running time of 120 minutes. It played Cannes, Telluride and London 2024. It opened in the USA on October 11th and in the UK on October 18th.
Bina007 Movie Reviews
Thursday, October 17, 2024
THE APPRENTICE***** - BFI London Film Festival 2024 - Day 9
SATURDAY NIGHT - BFI London Film Festival 2024 - Day 8
This is not a review of SATURDAY NIGHT as, for logistical reasons, I had to skip the final thirty minutes. That said, I was not that invested in it and I doubt I missed anything.
NIGHTBITCH*** - BFI London Film Festival 2024 - Day 9
NIGHTBITCH is rated R and has a 98 minute running time. It played Toronto and London 2024. It opens in the USA on December 6th.
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
SISTER MIDNIGHT**** - BFI London Film Festival 2024 - Day 8
SISTER MIDNIGHT has a running time of 110 minutes. It played Cannes and London 2024. It does not yet have a commercial release date.
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
A REAL PAIN***** - BFI London Film Festival 2024 - Day 6
Eisenberg and Culkin play two cousins, David and Benji, who travel to Poland to honour their recently deceased grandmother. David is clearly on edge - nervous around a cousin that he clearly loves but mortified by Benji's behaviour. It's a strange mix of envy at Benji's charisma and fear of what happens when he crashes. Culkin plays Benji as a larger than life, filterless, big kid who can be thoughtless and casually cruel but is obviously very fragile and loveable too.
The cousins join a small private tour of Poland for Jews interested in the Holocaust. Their own grandmother was a survivor, and the tour group comprises people who also lost loved ones, as well as a new Jewish convert who himself survived the Rwandan genocide. As they journey to Lublin they see remnants of an old vibrant Jewish community with the concentration camp Madjanek clearly visible from the centre of town.
It is testament to Eisenberg's writing and direction that this topic is handled with due sensitivity but that this film is also absolutely hilarious. Best of all, it resists trite neat endings or emotional resolutions. It is a film that it is utterly confident about what it wants to say and gets the tone absolutely right in saying it.
A REAL PAIN is rated R and has a running time of 90 minutes. It played Sundance where Eisenberg won the screenwriting award. It opens in the USA on November 1st and in the UK on January 10th 2025.
ANORA** - BFI London Film Festival 2024 - Day 7
ANORA is rated R and has a running time of 139 minutes. It played Toronto, Telluride and London 2024. It opens in the USA on October 18th and in the UK on November 1st.