From Louis Partridge's sex scenes to Cate Blanchett's script notes: inside the BFI London Film Festival parties

The BFI London Film Festival is successful afloat swing. Red carpets enactment the South Bank and stars of the metallic surface person been braving the vagaries of the British upwind with aplomb. All except, perhaps, manager Alfonso Cuarón. “I’m freezing!” helium repeated erstwhile we saw him connected the rooftop of 180 House for the aft enactment of his caller Apple TV+ series, Disclaimer.

The bid is acceptable successful London and stars Cate Blanchett arsenic palmy documentary shaper with a concealed past. Cuarón said the prima did “so overmuch research” that her publication looked similar it was annotated by “Dostoyevsky oregon a serial killer”.

The amusement besides stars HoYeon Jung, Sacha Baron Cohen and Louis Partridge. Cuarón was afloat of praise for the latter: “He’s specified a bully actor, and he’s a hunk.” Partridge is billed arsenic the adjacent Timothée Chalamet, but inactive hasn’t got utilized to watching himself successful the show. “It was a spot pugnacious astatine Venice [Film Festival] due to the fact that I had Apple CEO Tim Cook sitting down maine — and there’s rather a spot of nudity,” helium confessed.

One of the astir hyped films of the festival truthful acold has been a Spanish-language philharmonic transgression comedy. Sounds niche, but Emilia Pérez has a starry formed including Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldaña, and received an 11-minute lasting ovation astatine Cannes (don’t their hands get sore?). After a reddish carpet premiere, rapper Akala and histrion Rami Malek joined the manner battalion for a 2nd screening and afterparty astatine Tate Modern.

Over astatine the Chiltern Firehouse, histrion Douglas Booth, Baby Reindeer’s Richard Gadd, presenter Jameela Jamil and manner decorator Grace Wales Bonner went to a cocktail enactment successful solemnisation of the movie festival, hosted by United Talent Agency.