Anaïs in Love, 2021. Directed by Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet. Starring Anaïs Demoustier, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Denis Podalydès, Jean-Charles Clichet, Anne Canovas, Christophe Montenez and Xavier Guelfi. SYNOPSIS: A directionless young woman becomes fascinated with the writer wife of an older man after she begins an affair with him. Earlier this year, Joachim Trier’s terrific drama The […]
Movie Review – The Girl with a Bracelet (2019)
The Girl with a Bracelet, 2019. Directed by Stéphane Demoustier. Starring Melissa Guers, Roschdy Zem, Anaïs Demoustier, Annie Mercier, Chiara Mastroianni, Anne Paulicevich, Léo Moreau, Mikaël Halimi, Victoria Jadot and Paul Aïssaoui-Cuvelier. SYNOPSIS: A young woman stands trial for the murder of her best friend. Courtroom dramas on the big screen are often no more […]
Movie Review – Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
Bodies Bodies Bodies, 2022. Directed by Halina Reijn. Starring Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Rachel Sennott, Myha’la Herrold, Chase Sui Wonders, Lee Pace, and Pete Davidson. SYNOPSIS: Chaos and bloodshed spreads across a group of teens when a party game played during a hurricane turns very nasty indeed. It’s easy to laugh at Gen Z. They’re […]
Movie Review – Tomorrow Morning (2022)
Tomorrow Morning, 2022. Directed by Nick Winston. Starring Samantha Barks, Ramin Karimloo, Oliver Clayton, Fleur East, George Maguire, Harriet Thorpe, Omid Djalili, Joan Collins and Henry Goodman. SYNOPSIS: Two pivotal days in the life of a couple interweave – the 24 hours before their wedding and the preparation for the settlement hearing around their divorce […]
Movie Review – Crimes of the Future (2022)
Crimes of the Future, 2022. Directed by David Cronenberg. Starring Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart and Don McKellar. SYNOPSIS: In a future where medical advances have eliminated pain for most, performance artists engage in extreme body modification and the growth of unusual new organs. It’s difficult to think of anyone who would be more […]
Movie Review – Benedetta (2021)
Benedetta, 2021. Directed by Paul Verhoeven. Starring Virginie Efira, Daphne Patakia, Charlotte Rampling and Lambert Wilson. SYNOPSIS: A nun at an Italian convent believes she experiences visions of Jesus Christ himself, and pursues a romantic relationship with another woman. When you watch a movie by Paul Verhoeven, you know you’re not in for an easy […]
Movie Review – Mr Malcolm’s List (2022)
Mr Malcolm’s List, 2022. Directed by Emma Holly Jones. Starring Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, Freida Pinto, Zawe Ashton, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Theo James, Naoko Mori and Ashley Park. SYNOPSIS: In the high society of 1800s London, an eligible bachelor with a list of requirements for his future wife looks set to get a rude awakening when a woman […]
Movie Review – Paris, 13th District (2021)
Paris, 13th District, 2021. Directed by Jacques Audiard. Starring Noémie Merlant, Lucie Zhang, Makita Samba, Jehnny Beth and Camille Léon-Fucien. SYNOPSIS: A selection of young people navigate sex and relationships in Paris. Is there anything more French than a multi-stranded, monochrome drama about young Parisians having sex with each other? That’s what Jacques Audiard has […]
Movie Review – Eiffel (2021)
Eiffel, 2021. Directed by Martin Bourboulon. Starring Romain Duris, Emma Mackey, Pierre Deladonchamps, Armande Boulanger and Bruno Raffaelli. SYNOPSIS: As he prepares to build the monument that would define Paris, Gustave Eiffel is visited by a face from his past. I’ve never given much thought to why the Eiffel Tower is the shape that it […]
Sundance London 2022: The Top 5 Films From the Festival
Tom Beasley on the top films from Sundance London 2022… Another edition of the Sundance London Film Festival is in the books, with more than a dozen films from the Utah-based fest’s catalogue screened to press and the public in the British capital. We spent several days cramming in as many of the festival’s offerings […]
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