Reinventing Hardy’s Tess Of The d’Urbervilles in a colourful India in its own glorious revolution, Michael Winterbottom’s Trishna is a bitter fall from grace. Trishna The Fall by Mark Wilshin CAUTION: Here be spoilers With Trishna all of Michael Winterbottom’s Diwalis must have come at once. Like Jude and The Claim, it’s a return to [...]
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Film Review: Trishna (2011)
March 18th, 2012 No Comments
Tags: 2011 · 9 Songs · cinema · Code 46 · dogandwolf · film · film review · Freida Pinto · In The Mood For Love · In This World · London Film Festival · Mark Wilshin · Michael Winterbottom · Reviews · Riz Ahmed · Shigeru Umebayashi · Slumdog Millionaire · The Road to Guantanamo · Trishna · Wilshin
Film Review: A Man’s Story (2010)
March 13th, 2012 No Comments
Filmed over 12 years, Varon Bonicos’s A Man’s Story is more than a bio-doc on Ozwald Boateng, it’s a sharp look at the essence of the man. A Man’s Story The Man In The White Suit By Mark Wilshin CAUTION: Here be spoilers Fashion and film make an inconvenient two-piece. Especially when it comes to documentary. While [...]
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Film Review: The Woman In The Fifth (2011)
March 9th, 2012 No Comments
Filmed in French, English and Polish, Pawel Pawlikowski’s The Woman In The Fifth offers a uniquely European look at love, literature and lunacy. The Woman In The Fifth The Space Between by Mark Wilshin CAUTION: Here be spoilers Paris’ Fifth arrondissement is the home to the Latin Quarter, the Sorbonne and the Pantheon, and as [...]
Tags: 2011 · Before Sunset · Catherine Corsini · cinema · dogandwolf · Ethan Hawke · film · film review · France · I’ve Loved You So Long · Kristin Scott Thomas · Krzysztof Kieslowski · Mark Wilshin · My Summer Of Love · Partir · Pawel Pawlikowski · Philippe Claudel · Poland · Reviews · Richard Linklater · Robert Bresson · Ryszard Lenczewski · The Woman In The Fifth · UK · Wilshin · Yasujirô Ozu
Film Review: Michael (2011)
March 8th, 2012 No Comments
With echoes of Michael Haneke, the Austrian master’s casting director Markus Schleinzer has us on a knife-edge with his paedophilia drama Michael. Michael Behind Closed Doors by Mark Wilshin CAUTION: Here be spoilers It speaks volumes about our cinematic viewing habits that a good ending is accompanied by an overwhelming need for justice. And it’s [...]
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Film Review: Khodorkovsky (2011)
March 5th, 2012 1 Comment
From oligarch to the Siberian gulag, Cyril Tuschi’s documentary Khodorkovsky shines a light on Russia’s murky politics and its most infamous dissident. Oh, those Russians. Khodorkovsky How The Steel Was Tempered by Mark Wilshin CAUTION: Here be spoilers Cyril Tuschi’s documentary on the imprisoned Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky opens in Siberia with a slow circular [...]
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Film Review: Hadewijch (2009)
February 17th, 2012 No Comments
A compelling insight into the mind of a Christian terrorist, Bruno Dumont’s Hadewijch is a hotbed of religious delusion and misplaced fervour. Hadewijch Diary of A Country Priestess by Mark Wilshin CAUTION: Here be spoilers It seems every French filmmaker wants to be Bresson. And with its young devout believer and its slow titles shot [...]
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Film Review: Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
February 5th, 2012 No Comments
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 Marcy May Marlene I’ve Got All My Sisters With Me by Mark Wilshin CAUTION: Here be spoilers It’s hard not to fondly recall Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides when watching [...]
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Film Review: The Nine Muses (2010)
January 20th, 2012 No Comments
Respected Afro-British director John Akomfrah’s haunting film The Nine Muses is an unusual, genre defying, literary based contemplation of migration, memory and the power of elegy. The Nine Muses On Distant Shores by Laura Bennett CAUTION: Here be spoilers In simple terms John Akomfrah’s The Nine Muses can be summed up as an unlikely trilogy [...]
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