1 September 2015

DVD Review: ‘Wellington’

By CineVue 1 September 201531 December 2019

Daniel Green / Reviews

★★★★☆ A fitting ode to the late, great Chilean filmmaker Raoul Ruiz (directed by his former editing partner and widow Valeria Sarmiento), it would perhaps be unfavourable to compare the Golden Lion-nominated Lines of Wellington (2012) with Ruiz’s final finished work, the sublime Mysteries of Lisbon (2010). An understandably disruptive Continue Reading

DVD Review: ‘Phoenix’

By CineVue 1 September 201531 December 2019

Patrick Gamble / Reviews

★★★★☆ An Hitchcockian Berlin-set thriller, Christian Petzold’s Phoenix (2014) hinges almost entirely on its sensational finale; a near-perfect coda to a film that employs acquainted genre tropes to unearth the malodorous remnants of memory and guilt in contemporary Germany. Petzold’s characters often find themselves in situations in which they must Continue Reading