Day: 23 May 2014

4 minute read

#Cannes #John Bleasdale

Cannes 2014: ‘Jauja’ review

★★★☆☆ Viggo Mortensen takes a leisurely stroll through South American arthouse territory in Lisandro Alonso’s oddly compelling peculiarity Jauja (2014). From a screenplay by poet Fabian Casas, the film tells the story of Danish captain Gunnar Dinesen (Mortensen), something of […]

4 minute read

#Cannes #John Bleasdale

Cannes 2014: ‘Charlie’s Country’ review

★★★☆☆ When Aborigine actor, dancer and activist David Gulpipil was just sixteen he starred in Nicolas Roeg’s masterful Walkabout (1971), accompanying the director and his co-star Jenny Agutter to the Cannes Croisette for the film’s world premiere. Unfortunately, tribal business […]