FAREWELL AMOR – ★★★★

Great start to the last day of MIFF 2020. This film is about an African immigrant to America who moved to New York, and then after a long (17 year) wait, was finally able to bring his wife and daughter over to be together again. Excellent pacing, and lots of touching moments in this, without being too overly-sentimental or dramatic.

LAST AND FIRST MEN – ★★★★

✅ Jóhann Jóhannsson composing (and directing)
✅ Tilda Swinton narrating
✅ Science Fiction with ‘resonances of 2001: A Space Odyssey’
With the above checklist, this film was one of my (if not my most) highly anticipated films for MIFF 2020. I really enjoyed it. The film and music were meditative and incidental to the story, but it worked well together. Mostly black and white shots of terrain and brutalist style monuments, it was reminiscent to me of Anton Corbijn’s work. Would love to see this on a proper sized cinema screen with good sound one day.