LIFF 2011: Day 10 Video Highlights From BFI 55Th London Film Film Festival

BFI’s daily video highlights package of the London Film Festival’s best moments Vodcast has arrived .Day 10 of the 55th BFI London Film Festival saw the Sight & Sound Special Screening of The Kid with a Bike, which was attended by its directors, the Dardennes brothers.

On the run from a children’s home where his father (Jérémie Renier) has dumped him, 11-year-old Cyril (Thomas Doret) goes to his father’s place, but finds neither him nor his beloved bike. Instead, when his carers find him, he dives into a doctor’s waiting room and clings to hairdresser Samantha (Cécile de ). She takes an interest and eventually offers to foster him at weekends.

Alexander Payne took part in the second Screen Talk, presented in partnership with American Express, and films including Take Shelter and Martha Marcy May Marlene premiered in London’s West End.

Take Shelter – Curtis LaForche (Michael Shannon) is a working stiff in a small Ohio town, a crew chief for a sand-mining company. Money is tight, though Curtis finds solace in his ive family, and devotion to his loving wife Samantha (Jessica Chastain) and their young daughter Hannah (Tova Stewart), who is deaf.

Martha Marcy May Marlene – First seen living in an isolated but seemingly idyllic commune in the Catskills, it’s not long before Martha (Olsen) flees this extended family of sorts and takes refuge with her sister Lucy, their first in over two years. Lucy (Sarah Paulson), now living with her husband Ted (Hugh Dancy) in an impressive lakeside home, seems only too happy to rebuild relations with the evidently fragile Martha. But, as the days , Martha is troubled by recurring visions of the coercive nature of the cult and its charismatic but ruthless leader, and her paranoia and mental disarray makes her behaviour erratic, and undermines her ability to re-enter ‘normal’ life.