DVD Review: ‘A Call Girl’
★★★★☆ Slovenia may not be renowned for its film industry, but with Damjan Kazole’s modern day tale of prostitution and social alienation A Call...
★★☆☆☆ “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.
★★★★☆ Slovenia may not be renowned for its film industry, but with Damjan Kazole’s modern day tale of prostitution and social alienation A Call...
★★★★☆ Romanian director Radu Muntean’s intensely observed domestic drama Tuesday, After Christmas (2010) is about the end of a marriage and the start of...
★★★★☆ Those who like their films heavily laden with nostalgia are in for a treat with StudioCanal’s DVD release of two Dickensian gems. English...
★★★☆☆ The Oedipus complex has long fascinated and inspired artists and Hungarian writer/director Benedek Fliegauf is the latest filmmaker to tackle the subject in...
★★★☆☆ You’d be forgiven for interpreting the title of Keralino Sandorovich’s latest film, Crime or Punishment?!? (2011) as a mistranslated contemporary adaptation of Fyodor...
★★★★★ In 1934, French director Jean Vigo tragically died of tuberculosis at the age of just 29, leaving behind his one and only completed...
★★★☆☆ The rise of the Scandinavian crime thriller in contemporary Western culture has been nothing short of astronomic, encompassing literature (Stieg Larsson, Jo Nesbø),...
★★★☆☆ British director Guy Ritchie’s first Sherlock Holmes foray in 2009 was met with criticism over its jumbled plot and reductive take on Holmes’...