FILM REVIEW: Culture Vulture #4 - Bolton Film Festival

Bolton Film Festival is entirely online this year, and here I watched two films from their 'Culture Vulture' classification. Films which deal with The Arts in general.

1. Wishbone - UK - Dir: Caleb Femi

Filmed at London's Battersea Arts Centre, this poetry and dance fusion film uses the performance poetry of Caleb Femi overlaying a pas de deux by two black dancers, using dance as a release, a moment of freedom.

Simply filmed, simply told, but effective.

2. Time Takes Time - Italy - Dir: Alberto Leracitano and Francesco Belligerante.

This World Premiere showing of MediterraneoARTE film's 'Time Takes Time' is a dance film (choreography by Cyril Baldy and Tilman O'Donnell) which is a somewhat deliberately monotonous film showing the same actions / movements on repeat, over different souther Italian locations (filmed in Calabria) which aims to show us that although everything is different it is also the same, and we are connected to it just as much as it is connected to us. It sounds very arty, and indeed it is, but the film is also very watchable, even if it is only to envy the beautiful locations. 

Reviewer - Matthew Dougall

on - 17/10/20