Fireworks Wednesday
FIREWORKS WEDNESDAY tracks the lives of three married couples over a single day in Tehran. Mark Liversidge reviews Asghar Farhadi’s unpredictable, slow-burning drama.
FIREWORKS WEDNESDAY tracks the lives of three married couples over a single day in Tehran. Mark Liversidge reviews Asghar Farhadi’s unpredictable, slow-burning drama.
“Machete don’t tweet.” Twitter’s loss is our gain as this sequel, showing in the FrightFest strand, is a nonsensical yet amusing action spoof, writes Gavin Midgley.
“A discovery that will shake the foundations of literature”: Petter Amundsen’s promise in Jorgen Friberg’s dotty documentary.
PIECES OF ME, French director Nolwenn Lemesle’s first foray into feature-length filmmaking, is an astute account of teenage angst, writes Joe De-Vine.
MUSCLE SHOALS riffs on Rick Hall’s often pained backstory and his success as the world’s most in-demand knob-twiddler, writes Huw Oliver.
Michael Roemer’s innovative drama, shown at the Cambridge Film Festival, is an unfairly neglected gem of 60s cinema, writes Gavin Midgley
“You can’t plough a field by turning it over in your mind”. DUMMY JIM is inspired by Scottish author and long-distance cyclist, James Duthie.
Even in the depths of the monarch’s decadence and detachment from reality, LUDWIG is always a sympathetic character, writes Owen Baker.
This beautifully directed tale of rediscovered family and love can’t quite fulfill its early promise, but is still well worth seeing, writes Owen Baker.
HANNAH ARENDT is a film populated with deep thinkers, academics and journalists, but only a few express their passions believably, writes Mark Liversidge.