Film Review: ‘Keep the Lights On’
★★★☆☆ Forty Shades of Blue (2005) and Married Life (2007) director Ira Sachs’ Teddy and Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning drama Keep the Lights On...
★★☆☆☆ “An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king,” Percy Shelley once wrote in his sonnet England in 1819. He was firing his barbs at King George III but the words could just as well be used for any number of English monarchs including Henry VIII.
★★★★★ Turkish master director Nuri Bilge Ceylan returns to the Cannes Croisette with About Dry Grasses, a wonderful wintry meditation on male fragility and the way we often make our own hells and then deceive ourselves that we’re trapped.
★★★★☆ From sub-Saharan Africa to Afghanistan, Syria to Iraq and Iran, the climate crisis, drought, war, and oppression has created a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions. It is treated as an ethical conundrum, but it isn’t. Either we wish to save those who are in danger of dying, or all our talk of human rights is just so much hot air. This is the core concern of Green Border.
★★★☆☆ Forty Shades of Blue (2005) and Married Life (2007) director Ira Sachs’ Teddy and Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning drama Keep the Lights On...
★★★★☆ High hopes were held for Palme d’Or nominee Rust and Bone (2012) prior to its Cannes competition premiere. The fourth feature from acclaimed...
★★★★☆ The BFI’s remastered Jacques Tati series continues with the double release of Jour de Fête (1949) and Mon Oncle (1958) – two of...
★☆☆☆☆ Monstro! (2010), the new (supposed) antipodean shocker from the Land Down Under is just that very thing – monstrous. Selling itself as a...
★★★★☆ There was never any in-between with Diana Vreeland, the legendary fashion editor of American Harper’s Bazaar and later of American Vogue – people...
★★★☆☆ Maïwenn writes, stars and directs Polisse (2011), a provocative drama centred upon a Parisian Child Protection Unit, exploring the team members’ various lives...
★★★★★ Arriving as the British capital revels in the wake of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad, Julien Temple’s London: The Modern Babylon is perhaps the...
★★★★☆ American indie director Lynn Shelton’s long-awaited follow-up to the excellent Humpday (2009) sees her once again calling upon the improvisational acting style of...