The Man Who Was Thursday

A priest falls from grace and finds himself thrown into the Roman Underworld to find the identity of the mysterious leader of a group of renegades in Balazs Juszt’ The Man Who Was Thursday. As the film opens, Father Smith (François Arnaud) is clearly deeply conflicted about his role as a priest. He hears the…

EIFF 2015 – Index Zero

Lorenzo Sportiello’s Index Zero depicts a Post Apocalyptic society where people are categorised based on their perceived sustainability according to some vague set of criteria. If you think this sounds familiar that’s because it is. Originality isn’t the name of the game here with every aspect of this film seeming to be stolen from some…