Patrick Gamble
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Film Review: ‘Breathing’
★★★★☆ Austrian actor Karl Markovics (best known to UK audiences for his starring role in 2007 Academy Award winner The Counterfeiters) has stepped behind the camera to make his debut feature film Breathing (Atmen, 2011), and in the process has created one of this year’s most heartfelt and moving films.Roman Kogler (Thomas Schubert) is a…
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Interview: Eugène Green, ‘The Portuguese Nun’
This week saw the release of Eugène Green’s The Portuguese Nun (2009) (review here) – a fascinating, yet highly unconventional existential journey through Lisbon following an actress as she deals with issues of loneliness, love and divine will. CineVue were lucky enough to catch up for an interview with Green, a director with a clear…
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Film Review: ‘The Gospel of Us’
★★★☆☆ Michael Sheen stars in director David McKean’s The Gospel of Us (2012) – a big screen adaptation of the groundbreaking National Theatre of Wales performance arts play The Passion which took place last Easter in Port Talbot. Consisting of a weekend long staged contemporary re-imagining of the last day’s of Christ, the play also…
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DVD Review: ‘Jitters’
★★★☆☆ For all intensive purposes, Baldvin Zophoníasson’s Jitters (Órói, 2010) seems like little more than an Icelandic interpretations of Channel 4’s Skins – a coming of age drama full of rambunctious adolescent misbehaviour. However, whilst easy to pigeon-hole as a piece of teenage cultural trash, if you give Zophoníasson’s nuanced film an opportunity you’ll discover a powerfully emotive and…
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DVD Review: ‘The Portuguese Nun’
★★★★☆ World cinema darling Leonor Baldaque stars in Eugene Green’s The Portuguese Nun (2009), an unconventional adaptation of the 17th century text Letters of a Portuguese Nun – a collection of love notes which begin passionately before slowly filtering through varying conflicts of faith, feelings of despair and eventually tragedy. Rising French actress Julie (Baldaque)…
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Film Review: ‘A Cat in Paris’
★★★☆☆ At a time when 3D ‘experiences’ are being used to fleece a few extra pence of generous parents and numerous sequels and spin-offs of CGI family films are saturating cinema listings, it comes as a welcome breath of fresh air to see there are still films like Academy Award nominee A Cat in Paris…
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Film Review: ‘Return’
★★★☆☆ Following the recent influx of anti-war films with a more inwardly-looking perspective, Liza Johnson’s debut feature Return (2011) stars Linda Cardellini as a female soldier unable to reintegrate into society after the horrors she witnessed in Afghanistan, alongside Michael Shannon and John Slattery.On returning from a military tour of duty, Kelli (Cardellini) is excited…
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Film Review: ‘Mirror Mirror’
★★★☆☆ It’s a story almost as old as time itself… no not Snow White, but rather never taking a trailer on face value. Tarsem Singh’s re-imagining, Mirror Mirror (2012) (one of two interpretations of this famous fairy tale due for release this year – the other being Rupert Sanders’ Snow White and the Huntsman), belies…
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Special Feature: Genesis Cinema launches Studio 5
Earlier this month, the Genesis Cinema opened their brand new luxury screen, Studio 5, and CineVue were lucky enough to be invited to have a sneak peak at this much loved East London cinema’s latest addition. Situated on the run-down Mile End Road in Whitechapel, the Genesis Cinema has a long tradition of providing an…
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Film Review: ‘Tiny Furniture’
★★★★☆ Written, directed and starring Lena Dunham, Tiny Furniture (2010) is a delightfully twee, existential comedy which takes a wildly imaginative approach to romance, family and the confusion which surrounds graduating. Also starring Dunham’s own mother and sister, and shot within their family home, Tiny Furniture is a prime example of micro budget filmmaking at…