★★★★☆ The French title of Leos Carax’s Mauvais Sang (1986) – released in the UK as The Night is Young, although the closest translation is “Bad Blood” – derives from the narcotic-laden second part of Arthur Rimbaud’s bracing prose poem A Season in Hell, a work which captures a frenzied Continue Reading
★★★★★ We live in a digital age, yet despite the onslaught of the constant increasing presence of technology in our lives, rarely do we consider how it’s changing our relationships with our friends, families and colleagues – let alone of emotional response to the technology we use. Spike Jonze’s Her Continue Reading
Exhibition (2013), the latest film from British auteur Joanna Hogg, is a mysterious work that poses provocative questions about how we relate to the people and spaces around us. While most of the industry is mired in what director Mike Figgis once called “kitsch ‘n’ sink”, Hogg is making original, Continue Reading
★★★★★ A man (H) and a woman (D) live together in a modernist house in London designed by the architect James Melvin in director Joanna Hogg’s Exhibition (2013). Both are artists, though the specifics of their particular media are for the most part ambiguous, and they work and cohabit within Continue Reading
★★★★☆ There could be an argument for three being the most cinematic of numbers. Some would argue two, others one, but it surely has to be three; it’s better than two because it simply isn’t about unity but disunity in flux: pure dramatic tension that constantly seems ready to spill Continue Reading
★★★☆☆ You have to hand it to Hollywood polymath James Franco. He certainly seems unfazed when it comes to the challenges he sets himself. Adapting (with co-writer Matt Rager) and starring in this classic work from American author William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (2013) also marks his feature directorial Continue Reading