One of the delights of covering film festivals is that there are always hidden gems to be discovered. Screening as part of Frightfest and also included in the Edinburgh International Film Festival line-up for 2022, this début feature by Andrew Legge was made on a microbudget with a cast who work primarily on the small screen, but it very much deserves a place on the big one. Building cleverly on a simple science fiction premise, it delivers a story full of moral and emotional difficulty with an acute awareness of possibility and rare moments of joie de vivre.
Presented as a recovered film from 1941, a composite piece created by a woman called Martha (Stephanie Martini) for her sister Thomasina (Emma Appleton), it opens in 1938 with the invention of a machine – named Lola in honour of the sisters’ deceased mother – which can pick up radio and...
Presented as a recovered film from 1941, a composite piece created by a woman called Martha (Stephanie Martini) for her sister Thomasina (Emma Appleton), it opens in 1938 with the invention of a machine – named Lola in honour of the sisters’ deceased mother – which can pick up radio and...
- 8/26/2022
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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