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LFF 2018: Sorry To Bother You & Happy New Year, Colin Burstead








Sorry To Bother You

dir. Boots Riley, USA, 2018


Sorry To Bother You is rapper Boots Riley's first film, and you have to wonder if he thought it might also be his last, because it feels like he's lobbed every idea he ever had at the screen in case he never gets the chance to use any of them again. It's a wild ride, and much of the madness lands, but it really needs to calm down a bit and
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