Film Review: ‘Late September’
★☆☆☆☆ Director Jon Sanders’ third feature Late September (2012) is a lumbering, tiresome arthouse experiment that cheaply muses on the relationship of a couple...
★★★★☆ In Alex Garland’s Civil War, a group of journalists embark on a road trip to interview the US President amidst a second American Civil War, while exploring media’s dehumanizing relationship with violence.
★★★★☆ Having won the Jury Prize in 2013 for Like Father, Like Son and the Palme d’Or in 2018 with Shoplifters, Cannes favourite and Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda returns with Monster, a masterful work of intricate storytelling, complemented by a lovely score by the late Ryuichi Sakamoto.
★★★★★ Theodor Adorno famously wrote that poetry was not possible after Auschwitz, but is cinema? Billy Wilder certainly thought so, getting footage from the camps as evidence as much as anything else. Steven Spielberg, Claude Lanzmann, Alain Resnais and Roberto Benigni have all with differing degrees of success tried their hands.
★★★★★ Greek weird wave director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Favourite) hits his stride with his strangest yet most deeply satisfying comedy fable yet, Poor Things. This exhilarating mix of Fanny Hill and Frankenstein is adapted by Tony McNamara from Alasdair Gray’s novel of the same name.
★☆☆☆☆ Director Jon Sanders’ third feature Late September (2012) is a lumbering, tiresome arthouse experiment that cheaply muses on the relationship of a couple...
★★☆☆☆ Previously known for some rather mediocre films, director Dana Lustig returns with A Thousand Kisses Deep (2011) – a thought provoking, if somewhat...
★★☆☆☆ While she certainly kicked ass as a fearsome femme fatale in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds (2009), French actress Mélanie Laurent has always seemed...
★★★☆☆ Kidulthood (2006) writer Noel Clarke join forces with Lenora Crichlow, Lily James and Bradley James in New Zealand-born director Regan Hall’s Brit-flick Fast...
★★★★☆ From Reha Erdem, the celebrated director of Times and Winds (2006), comes Kosmos (2010), a confounding, yet beautiful film, which only furthers the...
★★☆☆☆ On paper, actress and director Maïwenn’s CPU (Child Protection Unit) orientated procedural drama Polisse (2011), with its blend of both the humorous and...
★★★☆☆ Winner of both the Best Screenplay and Best Actor awards at this year’s Berlinale (the latter for Mikkel Boe Følsgaard’s eccentric turn as...
★★★☆☆ After making an impression with his claustrophobic directorial debut Buried (2010), writer and director Rodrigo Cortés returns to cinema screens with ex-Sundance entry Red...