CineVue
For the latest reviews of arthouse, documentary and indie film in cinemas and on the festival circuit.
★★★★★ The Coen brothers return to the London Film Festival this year with the barnstorming Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), a picaresque odyssey following the close-calls and mishaps of an also-ran folk songster within the New York Greenwich Village scene. It’s the early sixties, well before Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs and Continue Reading
Olivier Assayas fidgets endlessly. On the finer nuances of 1970s radicalism, the French director swivels around with unflappable urgency and a staccato delivery to his response. Such as the characters in his semi-autobiographical movie, Something in the Air (2012), Assayas exudes this infectious youthful dynamism, coupled with a profound understanding Continue Reading
Directed and produced by debut American filmmaker Bess Kargman, heartwarming documentary First Position (2011) follows six aspirational young dancers, each of them striving for one specific goal – a place in the American Grand Prix final, the world’s most prestigious ballet competition. To celebrate the DVD rerelease of First Position Continue Reading
★★★★☆ “We bring light to people’s homes” says Gilles (Olivier Gourmet), a middle-aged foreman in Rebecca Zlotowski’s Grand Central (2013). The protagonists of her latest film are young, unskilled French workers who, at the end of their tether, gladly jump at the chance to work in the dangerously radioactive areas Continue Reading
Celebrated Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda delighted international audiences once again this year with I Wish (Kiseki, 2011), a sweet and endlessly touching tale of two young brothers separated by their parent’s amicable divorce. To celebrate the DVD and Blu-ray rerelease of Kore-eda’s latest endeavour on Monday 27 May, we’ve kindly Continue Reading
With Lore (2012), Australian writer and director Cate Shortland offers a unique perspective on the nature of collusion with this story of a young German girl who, at the end of the Second World War, leads her siblings through a devastated and defeated nation. To celebrate the DVD and Blu-ray Continue Reading