“A boy at the end of the Seville screening came up and said ‘I want to be a dad now. A real dad’.” Rita Osei is the director-producer of Bliss!, set in North East England and Norway. Bliss! follows Tasha, a 16 year old girl with a seemingly indifferent mother and a violent stepdad, who… Director-producer Rita Osei on her journey to bring Bliss! to the big screen Read More
Bliss! 4 stars
Bliss! is an assured and well-judged feature debut from director Rita Osei – an uplifting family film but an unsentimental one, and a movie that young girls can call their own. Searching Norway for a blond man nicknamed The Viking was never going to be easy. But it shows how deep teenage Tash’s need for… Bliss! Read More
The King’s Choice 4 stars
The actual German invasion is swift, though not entirely unexpected. A battleship sails into the Straits of Norway, the home forces attack, and a huge ship burns orange against an inky blue night sky. It’s an impressive initial volley, and also a heartbreaking last stand, as more German warships follow it into Norwegian waters. A… The King’s Choice Read More
Dead Snow 4 stars
“If you have your intestines in your hands, what do you do then?” and this sadly un-rhetorical question, posed by a Menacing Local to the kids-in-the-isolated-cabin, haunted me until about two-thirds of the way through Norwegian Nazi zombie mash up Dead Snow when it was overtaken by this thought: “if you are hanging off a cliff holding onto a Nazi zombie’s… Dead Snow Read More