Eyes Wide Open
Forbidden desire in Jerusalem’s orthodox community, the love affair between two Haredi Jews raises eyebrows in Haim Tabakman’s Eyes Wide Open. And razes the temple.
Reb Road by Mark Wilshin
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Eyes Wide Open begins with orthodox Jew Aaron breaking into his deceased father’s butcher’s shop with a stone. It’s a brutal but fragile [...]
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Donne Moi La Main
Exploring the entangled intimacy of twins, Pascal-Alex Vincent’s Donne Moi La Main is a road trip with a difference. But it’s no straight story.
Oh Brother Where Art Thou? by Mark Wilshin
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You have to love this film. If for no other reason than for bringing Colette Magny’s 1963 hit chanson Melocoton to [...]
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From forbidden love to lovesick confusion, London’s 24th Lesbian & Gay Film Festival explores the boundaries of love, sexuality and gender. It’s a fine bromance!
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Waving, Not Drowning by Mark Wilshin
With its fabulously glittery pink poster and rainbow’s ark of animals, London’s 24th Lesbian & Gay Film Festival is out and proud. And it’s nice for [...]
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Enter The Void
Tripping The Light Fantastic by Mark Wilshin
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I like the fact I’m starting this blog with Gaspar Noé’s film Soudain Le Vide. It’s the first film I saw in this year’s London Film Festival, but also vaguely appropriate as a cautionary tale, a caveat spectator on the dangers of being seduced by [...]
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Film Review: Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011):
A sister, a cult member, an alias - Sean Durkin's psychological thriller Martha Marcy May Marlene is an assured debut as gripping as it is haunting.
Martha Ma...
Film Review: Patience (After Sebald) (2012):
Patience (After Sebald) sees Grant Gee’s richly-textured path meander through the Suffolk countryside and the work of the acclaimed Anglo-German writer.
Patie...
Film Review: The Nine Muses (2010):
Respected Afro-British director John Akomfrah’s haunting film The Nine Muses is an unusual, genre defying, literary based contemplation of migration, memory and ...
Film Review: Shame (2011):
Michael Fassbender is at his leg-tapping best in Steve McQueen's Shame, a tale of lonely frustration, sexual addiction and grim redemption.
Shame
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Eleven in 2011:
The Dirty Dozen
Hm, the January blues. It's enough to make you want to curl up inside a darkened room. Which is fortunate, as there were so many great films i...
Film Review: Mysteries Of Lisbon / Mistérios de Lisboa (2010):
Prolific Franco-Chilean director, Raúl Ruiz’s penultimate film, Mysteries of Lisbon, is a labyrinthine, pan-European, Proustian epic that twists and turns across...
Film Review: The Artist / L'Artiste (2011):
With dazzling performances from Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo, Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist is a vibrant homage to silent films and the talkies' falling star...
Film Review: Las Acacias (2011):
A slowly elegant meditation on intimacy and friendship, Pablo Giorgelli's Las Acacias will have you screaming from the back seat with glee,"Are we nearly there y...
Film Review: We Have A Pope / Habemus Papam (2011):
Our man in the Vatican, Nanni Moretti's We Have A Pope delights both in the vibrant ritual of the papal conclave and rattling its cardinals' chasubles.
We H...
Film Review: Take Shelter (2011):
With thunderous performances by Jessica Chastain and Michael Shannon, Jeff Nichols' Take Shelter is a mind blowing twister of mental illness, austerity America a...