Albatross Review
Tom Hadfield reviews Niall MacCormick’s debut feature film ALBATROSS at the 31st Cambridge Film Festival
Tom Hadfield reviews Niall MacCormick’s debut feature film ALBATROSS at the 31st Cambridge Film Festival
Comedy is notorious for its tendency to get lost in translation and while it’s entirely possible that Jos Stelling’s 1999 tragicomic farce, NO TRAINS NO PLANES will have Dutch audiences rolling in the aisles, the film’s strange brand of surreal sentimental slapstick will likely leave British viewers cold.
The third film in Sono’s genre-bending ‘Hate Trilogy’ (after 2009’s LOVE EXPOSURE and 2010’s COLD FISH), GUILTY OF ROMANCE is equal parts gruesome police procedural, eccentric black comedy and erotically charged melodrama with flashes of psychological horror and frequent episodes of soft porn.