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Entries Tagged as '2009'

Film Review: Mademoiselle Chambon (2009)

September 23rd, 2011 No Comments

A tender waltz of self-restrained romance, ex-couple Vincent Lindon and Sandrine Kiberlain quietly explode in Stéphane Brizé’s autumn-hued Mademoiselle Chambon.
Mademoiselle Chambon
If Music Be The Food of Love by Mark Wilshin
CAUTION: Here be spoilers
Unlike other love stories of dangerously close liaisons, Mademoiselle Chambon is strangely realist and unsentimental. Its scenes build only slowly to a narrative climax, its [...]

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Film Review: The Referees / Les Arbitres (2009)

August 12th, 2011 No Comments

A fly-on-the-wall documentary spotlighting the beautiful game’s men in black, The Referees looks at soccer from a different angle. More obtuse than acute.
The Referees
Of Gods And Men by Mark Wilshin
CAUTION: Here be spoilers
Before the kick-off whistle blows, tension mounts in silent convoys and dressing rooms. Until the trio of referee and linesmen head onto the [...]

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Film Review: The Messenger (2009)

June 18th, 2011 No Comments

From writer to director, Oren Moverman takes on the casualties of war in his debut The Messenger, a fine buddy romance.
The Messenger
Boys Don’t Cry by Mark Wilshin
CAUTION: Here be spoilers
With such a recent plethora of male loser films from the States (Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere, Dan Rush’s Everything Must Go and Matthew Bissonette’s Passenger Side among others) [...]

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Film Review: My Dog Tulip (2009)

May 6th, 2011 No Comments

Based on JR Ackerley’s doggy romance and hand-drawn and painted by Paul and Sandra Feininger, My Dog Tulip is a labour of love twice over.
My Dog Tulip
My Life As A Dogby Mark Wilshin
CAUTION: Here be spoilers
Making its debut in France in 2009, it’s taken two years for My Dog Tulip to swim across the Channel, but it’s well [...]

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Film Review: Passenger Side (2009)

April 9th, 2011 No Comments

Starring his brother Joel, Matthew Bissonnette’s Passenger Side is an autobiographical tale of sibling rivalry and Los Angeles odysseys.
Passenger Side
L.A. Story by Mark Wilshin
CAUTION: Here be spoilers
L.A. is a lonely place. Especially when you’re too cool for friends. Like Michael. He’s an Angeleno hipster of indie cords and faded T-shirts. Even vinyl’s too trendy.  So [...]

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Film Review: Easier With Practice (2009)

December 13th, 2010 No Comments

Centred round a geeky fantasist’s phone-sex relationship, Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s Easier With Practice flirts with the danger of wet dreams coming true.
Easier With Practice
Dance With A Stranger by Mark Wilshin
CAUTION: Here be VERY BIG spoilers
The anecdote that hangs over all talk of Easier With Practice like an unwashed sock is the film’s genesis in a GQ [...]

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Film Review: Police, Adjective / Politist, Adjectiv (2009)

October 1st, 2010 1 Comment

Police, Adjective
Cuffed and bound, a changing Romania is put in the dock in Corneliu Porumboiu’s Police, Adjective when a conscience-niggled policeman starts questioning the law.
I Fought The Law by Mark Wilshin
Corneliu Porumboiu’s film is almost sufficiently explained by its title, Police, Adjective. It’s a policier as well as a linguistic analysis of what it is to be a [...]

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Film Review: The Horde (2009)

September 16th, 2010 2 Comments

 
Jam-packed with gore, Yannick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher breathe new life into the undead with their hybrid gangster/horror flick The Horde.
The Horde

Blood is Thicker than Water by Laura Bennett
His mangled corpse filling the forebodingly apocalyptic opening scene, it is the cop Rivoallan whose death lights the blue touch paper at the start of The Horde. [...]

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Film Review: Alamar / To The Sea (2009)

September 9th, 2010 1 Comment

Pedro González-Rubio’s Alamar is a touching tale of paternal love afloat upon the drifting Mexican sea.
Alamar
 Old Man of the Sea by Laura Bennett
 CAUTION: Here be spoilers.
Pedro González-Rubio’s first feature length film, Alamar, gently drifts across an ocean of familial relationships. Described by the director as a “hybrid between documentary and fiction”, Alamar focuses on the [...]

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Film Review: Mother (2009)

August 25th, 2010 No Comments

When her simple son is sent to prison for the murder of a local girl, Boon Joon-Ho’s Mother springs into action. Thank you, Mommie dearest.
Mother
Some Kind of Monster by Michael Edwards
CAUTION: Here be spoilers.
If Boon Joon-Ho is best known outside of Korea for his monster movie The Host, it is another type of monster that may [...]

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