Black Bread (Pa Negre)
BLACK BREAD (PA NEGRE) begins as it is to continue: in violence, turmoil and the loss of life. Hannah Clarkson reviews Agustí Villaronga’s gripping Catalonian tale, which screens again on Saturday 22nd.
Category Archives: Reviews
The Body In The Woods (Un Cos Al Bosc)
Joaquim Jordà’s THE BODY IN THE WOODS hits the wild boar hunt/twisty thriller/hardboiled ‘tec/S’n’M lesbian biker crossover nail right on the head, writes Keith Braithwaite.
The Pleasure Garden
Mismatched lovers, girls who look a bit similar, canny canines, dodgy flats in Brixton … Hitchcock’s THE PLEASURE GARDEN provides plenty of visual cues to what was to come, writes David Perilli.
Barbara
BARBARA follows a disgraced doctor who has tried – and failed – to flee to West Berlin in the 80s. Two standout performances bring warmth to a film set during a sombre and unforgiving time, writes Liam Jack.
Hemel
Trauma and lust, taboo and love: HEMEL tries to explore the complex relationship between a daughter and a father, their sexual obligation towards each other, and also their individual struggle to find love.
Hope Springs
Potentially schmaltzy subject matter is not likely to leave an audience cringing in its seat, writes Eve Stebbing: HOPE SPRINGS was a five star film simply in terms of the tenderness portrayed.
ShortFusion: To Rust
TO RUST is a collection of short films about experimentalism, but a secondary theme could be ‘the hypnotic’. Sophie Skinner reviews.
Formentera
The absence of genuine tragedy in Ann-Kristin Rayels’ FORMENTERA – set on a small island not far from Ibiza – weakens the drama, writes Keith Braithwaite
About Elly
The audience begins to share in the sense of guilt which hangs heavy in the sea air in Asghar Farhadi’s ABOUT ELLY – a meditation on friendship, complicity and the very nature of truth itself, writes Hannah Clarkson.
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Robert Guediguian salutes Cambridge as “the birthplace of Marxism” – and his film THE SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO, a drama set in the shipyards of Marseille, is vibrant with political argument.