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Review - London Film Festival 2020 Part 2 (Never Gonna Snow Again, Supernova and Limbo)

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Welcome back to my second post covering the 2020 London Film Festival! It's honestly been a completely exhausting festival and while my sleep schedule and academic courses are glad it's over, I do already find myself missing that beautiful chaos. It'll be the same kind of thing this time, with me reviewing three more films I loved from the eclectic selection on offer. No particular order, they're roughly organised by the order I saw them, but I recommend them all strongly. I've also been doing some coverage for Exepose, Exeter University's student paper. So far, they've published my reviews on  Relic and Undine , with two more on the way for One Man and His Shoes and Possessor . If you want smaller, more immediate thoughts on these films, you can find them on my Letterboxd , where I've also ranked all the films I saw at this years festival. With those things said, onto the films! Never Gonna Snow Again Cards on the table here, Never Gonna Snow Again wa

Review - London Film Festival 2020 Part 1 (The Painter and The Thief, Mangrove and Kajillionaire)

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Hey everyone, hope you're all still having a good apocalypse! It's been busy for me over the last few weeks because, in a virtual form, the London Film Festival is here. I'm gutted that I can't get that specialness of a weekend away in London watching films this year but the big plus side to going digital is that it is now more accessible than ever. As part of that, BFI offered what they've called "Film Academy accreditation" for young people, allowing them to get access to press and industry screenings of pretty much every film at the festival. With no worrying about rushing across London to the next cinema or thinking about gaps where I could grab some lunch, I've been able to watch a huge swathe of films so far (though I admit that still being a university student has slowed me down somewhat on the watching). I've seen a bunch of excellent films and there's more I'm planning on covering in two weeks time but for today, I want to talk abo