CineVue
For the latest reviews of arthouse, documentary and indie film in cinemas and on the festival circuit.
★★☆☆☆ Tetsuya Nakashima’s icy drama Confessions (2010) took the hyper-stylised aesthetics of his early work Kamikaze Girls (2004) and Memories of Matsuko (2006) and refined their energy and exuberance into a tightly wound revenge drama. His latest, The World of Kanako (2014), releases the clutch, utilising a repulsive former detective Continue Reading
★★★★☆ The taking of a beloved child is the nightmarish scenario at the centre of Thai filmmaker Peter Chan’s effective melodrama, Dearest (2014), competing in the London Film Festival’s Official Competition. China is painfully stricken by people trafficking, a fact that’s at the forefront of Tian Wen-jun (Huang Bo) and Continue Reading
★★★★★ Last year, Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity (2013) wowed audiences with its bravura setpieces and technical prowess, taking us into space and back down to earth again. This year, London’s Surprise Film is Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman (2014) (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), who trumps his fellow countryman with a Continue Reading