The Lost Daughter, 2021. Written and Directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal. Starring Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Dakota Johnson, Ed Harris, Peter Sarsgaard, Paul Mescal, Dagmara Domińczyk, Alba Rohrwacher, Jack Farthing, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Panos Koronis, Abe Cohen, and Nikos Poursanidis. SYNOPSIS: A woman’s beach vacation takes a dark turn when she begins to confront the troubles of […]
Movie Review – Happy as Lazzaro (2018)
Happy as Lazzaro, 2018. Directed by Alice Rohrwacher. Starring Adriano Tardiolo, Alba Rohrwacher, Tommaso Ragno, Luca Chikovani, Natalino Balasso and Nicoletta Braschi. SYNOPSIS: An unlikely friendship that blossoms on an isolated farm fires the starting pistol on a bizarre, surreal journey. It’s not often that a movie completely reconfigures itself at the halfway point, but […]
2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Happy as Lazzaro
Happy as Lazzaro, 2018. Directed by Alice Rohrwacher. Starring Adriano Tardiolo, Sergi Lopez and Alba Rohrwacher. SYNOPSIS: The tale of a meeting between Lazzaro, a young peasant so good that he is often mistaken for simple-minded, and Tancredi, a young nobleman cursed by his imagination. Life in their isolated pastoral village Inviolata is dominated by the […]
Movie Review – Scribe (2016)
Scribe, 2016. Directed by Thomas Kruithof. Starring Francois Cluzet, Denis Polyades, Sami Bouajila, Simon Abkarian and Alba Rohrwacher. SYNOPSIS: A burn-out leaves Duval (Francois Cluzet) recovering from alcoholism and unemployable. Seemingly out of the blue, he receives a job offer, transcribing recorded telephone conversations. He has no choice but to take it but quickly discovers […]