Rialto
Peter Mackie Burns has succeeded in getting strong performances from all his actors in RIALTO. Andrew Nickolds reviews.
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The County
Grimur Hakonarson and his DP Mart Taniel make full use of the Icelandic climate and landscape at their disposal along with other, subtler and often more comic ideas. Andrew Nickolds reviews.
Blood On Her Name
BLOOD ON HER NAME deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Jeremy Saulnier’s BLUE RUIN and indeed Jordan Peele’s GET OUT as a bloody melodrama made by a new director expertly flexing his movie muscles. Andrew Nickolds reviews.
Lucy in the Sky
LUCY IN THE SKY, with music sonorously in the background, goes off the rails and grows alien-like into an ugly and uncontrollable soap opera, a messy version of I, TONYA without the latter’s poignancy.
7th Heaven
Frank Borzage won the inaugural Academy Award for Best Director in 1927 for 7TH HEAVEN and it’s not hard to see why. A full-blooded romantic melodrama, it gave the ripest of plum parts to Janet Gaynor.
Distances (Les Distancies)
Elena Trappe conjures impeccable performances from her cast in the touching and funny DISTANCES.
The Workshop
Cantet’s compassion for his young characters is never far from the surface – hard though they may be to stomach for some of the time.
I Love My Mum
There’s no denying this raucous road movie has its moments, with effective comic interplay between the slatternly Olga (Kierston Wareing) and her equally feckless and foul-mouthed son Ron (Tommy French, both of them EastEnders alumni). During one of the film’s many slap-fights while Olga and Ron are on a late-night hunt for cheese, the car … Continue reading I Love My Mum
Shoplifters
Rarely can a packed Arts Picturehouse audience have been as totally engrossed in a movie as during the screening of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s SHOPLIFTERS (this year’s Palme D’Or winner at Cannes). Unfolding at its own deliberate pace over two hours, the story of the Fagin-like Osamu Shibata (Lily Franky) and his dysfunctional family scraping a living … Continue reading Shoplifters
You Go To My Head
It’s not hard to see why Dimitri de Clercq’s first solo feature as a director (he previously shared co-credit with Alain Robbe-Grillet on THE BLUE VILLA in 1995) has become a film festival favourite, recently winning Best Picture at Bogota, Houston and Orlando and picking up nominations for its cinematography, score and two lead actors … Continue reading You Go To My Head