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.
Category Archives: Reviews
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.
Come As You Are (Hasta la Vista)
It’s impossible not to warm to COME AS YOU ARE, which takes as its starting-point the defiant cry of “I’m not going to bloody die a virgin!” from Lars, forced into a wheelchair by terminal cancer.
A Cube Of Sugar
In A CUBE OF SUGAR, screening twice at CFF2012, you get to see a more humane and rounded view of Iranian society. It provides a vivid and moving portrait of family life, writes Mike O’Brien.
The Temptation of St Tony
THE TEMPTATION OF ST TONY, screening at the Cambridge Film Festival twice, is fresh, bold, stimulating and deliberately provocative, writes Mike O’Brien
Avalon
All seems to be going to plan for Janne until his carefree, excessive behaviour causes a tragic accident in AVALON … and Axel Petersen’s Scandinavian thriller is not a film of redemption, warns Will Hellbent-Audio.
Apsis: Interview with Max Weinman
Lovers of Bacon, Bergman and John Cage will deeply appreciate Max Weinman’s APSIS. Rosy Hunt spoke to the director of this remarkable short.
Psycho
Against a backdrop of generally stale modern horror releases you’ll find Alfred Hitchcock’s PSYCHO fresher, wittier and more unsettling than ever at this year’s Cambridge Film Festival, writes Patrick Fowler.
Big Boys Gone Bananas!
It sounds like something rented from a store with no windows (if you know what we mean) but Fredrik Gertten’s documentary is an illuminating film, dealing with issues of free speech and a free press.
Yossi
TAKE ONE recommends the minimal but moving performance from Ohad Knoller as YOSSI, in Eytan Fox’s story of bittersweet romance in the grotesque resort of Eilat in Israel.