Limbo (Sharrock, 2020): BFI Player, 6.30pm
64th LONDON FILM FESTIVAL (7th - 18th October 2020) DAY 10
Every
day (from October 7th to October 18th) I will be selecting the best
London Film Festival each day that you can catch on the BFI Player
service. Here is the LFF's main website for the general information you need.
Review A refreshingly different voice in UK cinema, Scottish writer/director Sharrock won the Michael Powell Award at Edinburgh Film Festival for his debut Pikadero, a quirky love story shot in the Basque language. Limbo has a similar singularity, at once deadpan comedy and also poignant tale of a group of refugees stuck, pending asylum, on a weather-beaten Hebridean outpost, the Uists. Sharrock cites Elia Suleiman as an inspiration and here too we see a deep humanism behind the wry gaze and a desire to move beyond cross cultural narratives of simple reconciliation. Rising UK star Amir El-Masry impresses as Omar, one of four men in this ‘limbo’ together, who find a bond in the shared strangeness of their situation and distance from their own countries and families. Tricia Tuttle
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