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Daily Archive: September 19, 2015

Film Review: ‘Tangerines’

★★★★★ Fully deserving of its Oscar and Golden Globe award nominations earlier this year, Zaza Urushadze’s affecting drama Tangerines (2013) – in UK cinemas this week courtesy of Axiom Films – is a bittersweet portrait of cruelty and compassion in...

Film Review: ‘The Messenger’

★★☆☆☆ Bogged down by a directionless narrative and pedestrian execution, David Blair’s The Messenger (2015) benefits slightly from a committed performance from rising Irish actor Robert Sheehan. But even that isn’t enough to hold the audiences attention, meaning scope for...

Film Review: ‘Everest’

★★★☆☆ Plunging you into the mindset of a group of mountaineers tackling the highest point on Earth, Baltasar Kormákur’s Everest (2015) is a heady disaster movie based on the true-life story of a disastrous 1996 expedition that ended in the...

Film Review: A Syrian Love Story

★★★★☆ Sean McAllister’s award-winning film A Syrian Love Story (2015) is a searing documentary portrait of a family torn apart by dictatorship and war. Amer and Raghda met and fell in love in a Syrian prison fifteen years ago. They...

Interview: July Jung, ‘A Girl at My Door’

The Un Certain Regard section was where the debut feature, A Girl at My Door (2014) from South Korean director July Jung unspooled to insidious acclaim by those who saw it. Following this auspicious beginning it played London Film Festival...

Film Review: ‘A Girl at My Door’

★★★★☆ July Jung’s A Girl at My Door (2014) offers a South Korean domestic abuse psychodrama marked by its slow pace, minimalist framing and unsettling sexual overtones. The link between bigotry and victimhood is quickly established on Young-Nam’s (Doona Bae)...