Film Review: Redoubtable
★★★☆☆ Michel Hazanavicius’ Redoubtable takes an acidic look at the iconoclastic Jean-Luc Godard and very much ‘clasts’ the icon. Just as May and 1968 is...
★★★★☆ In Alex Garland’s Civil War, a group of journalists embark on a road trip to interview the US President amidst a second American Civil War, while exploring media’s dehumanizing relationship with violence.
★★★★☆ Having won the Jury Prize in 2013 for Like Father, Like Son and the Palme d’Or in 2018 with Shoplifters, Cannes favourite and Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda returns with Monster, a masterful work of intricate storytelling, complemented by a lovely score by the late Ryuichi Sakamoto.
★★★★★ Theodor Adorno famously wrote that poetry was not possible after Auschwitz, but is cinema? Billy Wilder certainly thought so, getting footage from the camps as evidence as much as anything else. Steven Spielberg, Claude Lanzmann, Alain Resnais and Roberto Benigni have all with differing degrees of success tried their hands.
★★★★★ Greek weird wave director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Favourite) hits his stride with his strangest yet most deeply satisfying comedy fable yet, Poor Things. This exhilarating mix of Fanny Hill and Frankenstein is adapted by Tony McNamara from Alasdair Gray’s novel of the same name.
★★★☆☆ Michel Hazanavicius’ Redoubtable takes an acidic look at the iconoclastic Jean-Luc Godard and very much ‘clasts’ the icon. Just as May and 1968 is...
★★☆☆☆ Liquid Sky gets a remake from the guys who made The Inbetweeners. Or at least that’s what How to Talk to Girls at...
★★★☆☆ Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó won the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes back in 2014 with his satirical canine war fable White God. He...
★★★★☆ New from Claire Denis, Let the Sunshine In is a pithily precise portrait of the love life of an artist. The problem with...
★★☆☆☆ “Please do not touch the exhibits,” say the signs in most museums. In competition at Cannes, Todd Haynes’ Wonderstruck is a touchy-feely cabinet...
★★☆☆☆ Released this week in UK cinemas after opening last year’s Cannes Film Festival, Arnaud Desplechin’s Ismael’s Ghosts is a veritable who’s who of...
When there’s a monster on the loose, all manner of behaviour becomes reasonable. You can check under the bed each night, commandeer a vehicle...
The red carpet is being vacuumed, the Croisette prepped – new anti- terrorist bollards a grim reminder of the times – and a young...