Richard is an arts, film and features journalist, attends festivals around the world including Berlin, Cannes, Karlovy Vary, Deauville, Locarno, London, Venice and Taormina. His passion for cinema ran away with him when he helped to create two Film Festivals, now 20 years old, and devoted to French-Francophone cinema and Italian cinema at different locations around the UK in November and April respectively.
He is a director of boutique UK film distributors CinéFile and ran the Lumière cinema in Edinburgh over a number of years. He is a member of the National Union of Journalists, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, FIPRESCI the international federation of film critics, the Critics’ Circle, and the Guild of Regional Film Journalists.
We have 263 reviews by Richard Mowe in the database: read them here
Latest Film Reviews
Islands
Tom, a tennis coach at a luxury hotel, has his life changed when a new family arrives. Matters take a dark turn when the husband disappears and both Tom and the wife become suspects.
Christy
Two estranged brothers with chequered childhoods in the care system suddenly find themselves living under the same roof.
Dragonfly
When Colleen volunteers to care for her elderly neighbor Elsie, the two quickly bond. But beneath the pleasantries, motives start to be questioned leading to a devastating series of events.
Out Of Love
After many years, Suzanne and her two children unexpectedly show up at the home of her sister Jeanne. It initially looks like Suzanne is tentatively attempting to re-establish a relationship with her sister. But this illusion is shattered with the morning light: Suzanne is gone and Jeanne is forced to become a mother to children she barely knows.
Sirât
A father arrives at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco with his son, looking for his daughter who has been missing for months.
Leave One Day
Cécile is about to open her own gourmet restaurant, finally making her dream come true, when suddenly her father has a heart attack and she is called back to the village where she was born... and runs into her teenage crush.
Enzo
A 16-year-old boy breaks out from his bourgeois family and starts an apprenticeship as a stonemason. He also meets a Ukrainian colleague who turns his world upside down.
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