Posts tagged "The Keeping Room"

The 58th BFI London Film Festival

by Joanna Orland The annual BFI London Film Festival returned for its 58th year with a host of stars descending upon the city to celebrate cinema. A large selection of diverse films were on offer at this year’s festival, with many prevalent themes running through the programme October 8th-19th, 2014 . Festival director Clare Stewart […]

London Film Festival: The Keeping Room

Directed by Daniel Barber Starring Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld, Sam Worthington, Muna Otaru and Kyle Soller by Joanna Orland This film is so empowering for its strong female characters, it is actually somewhat of a surprise that it comes from a male director.  During the American Civil War, two sisters, Augusta (Marling) and Louise (Steinfeld) […]