Berlin 2015: ‘As We Were Dreaming’ review
★★★☆☆ As We Were Dreaming (2015), a coming of age tale about a group of friends growing up in Leipzig, is German director Andreas...
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6 December 2020
Small Axe: Alex Wheatle review
★★★★★ The latest offering from Steve McQueen’s Small Axe series, Alex Wheatle (co-written with Alastair Siddons) features an impressive debut from Sheyi Cole in...
26 November 2020
Small Axe: Red, White and Blue review
★★★★★ Steve McQueen’s extraordinary five-part series, Small Axe, set in the heart of London’s West Indian community from the 1960s to the 1980s, continues...
3 January 2020
Film Review: Amanda
★★★★☆ Mikhaël Hers’ sensitive, heartfelt third feature Amanda is about loss and bereavement in the aftermath of a brutal terrorist attack in a Paris park....
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Berlin 2015: ‘Ben Zaken’ review
★★☆☆☆ Israeli director Efrat Corem’s debut feature Ben Zaken (2014) is set in a cramped apartment in a poor suburb of Ashkelon, a coastal...
Berlin 2015: ‘Diary of a Chambermaid’ review
★★★☆☆ Benoît Jacquot’s adaptation of Diary of a Chambermaid, based on Octave Mirbeau’s 1900 novel, is engaging and visually stylish but loses momentum towards...
Berlin 2015: ‘Breathe Umphefumlo’ review
★★★★☆ Mark Dornford-May won Berlin’s Golden Bear in 2005 for U-Carmen, his adaptation of Bizet’s opera. He obviously hopes for similar success with his...
Film Review: ‘Trash’
★★★★☆ Stephen Daldry‘s latest feature film, set among the garbage heaps of Rio de Janeiro, belongs to its youthful, non-professional cast. Trash (2014) opens...
DVD Review: ‘1915: The Battle for the Alps’
★★★☆☆ Ernst Grossner’s war drama, 1915: The Battle for the Alps (released as The Silent Mountain in 2014), is set in the Dolomite Mountains...
DVD Review: ‘Wakolda’
★★★☆☆ Lucia Puenzo’s chilling drama, Wakolda (2013), based on her novel, German Doctor, follows the unlikely friendship of 12-year old Lilith (Florencia Bado) and...
DVD Review: ‘Grace of Monaco’
★★★☆☆ Olivier Dahan’s Grace of Monaco (2014), about the marriage of Hollywood film star Grace Kelly (Nicole Kidman) and Prince Rainier (Tim Roth) is...
