Steve McQueen helped raise the curtain on the 2020 BFI London Film Festival on Wednesday night, with his feature Mangrove — one of his five films in the BBC/Amazon Small Axe anthology — getting its European premiere in London and simultaneously across select cinemas around the U.K.
A significantly paired-back opening night severely impacted by the ongoing COVID-19 crisis saw the usual red carpet scrapped along with the post-screening reception, and a much reduced audience at the BFI Southbank (the festival has previously opened at the Odeon in Leicester Square).
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