Revisiting Louis Malle’s Le Feu Follet and the existential malaise, Joachim Trier’s Oslo, August 31st casts a beautiful eye over the death of summer.
Oslo, August 31st
Living In Oblivion by Mark Wilshin
CAUTION: Here be spoilers
You might question the wisdom of a young Norwegian director updating Louis Malle’s 1963 classic Le Feu Follet for his second feature, [...]
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Film Review: Oslo, August 31st (2011)
November 7th, 2011 No Comments
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Film Review: Restless (2011)
October 25th, 2011 No Comments
Doomed love with a straight twist, Gus Van Sant’s Restless hides a Last Days morbidity in a quirky teenage romance between a terminally ill girl and a funeral mourner.
Restless
Smells Like Teen Spirit by Mark Wilshin
CAUTION: Here be spoilers.
I can understand why Restless hasn’t been well received. Yes, it’s an anaesthetic story about cancer, a teenage-angsty [...]
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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
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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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Ten in 2010
January 6th, 2011 No Comments
And so, like a wet goat, another year is born; an ideal opportunity to reflect on 2010 and make widescreen resolutions for 2011. You may already be wading through Top Tens up and down the cyberland, but here’s my own little twist ending to the cinematic story of 2010, namely a countdown of the scenes [...]
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Film Review: Winter’s Bone (2010)
September 21st, 2010 1 Comment
Set deep in the bone-chilling Ozark woods, Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone rides high on the national spectre of repossession and will make Jennifer Lawrence a star.
Winter’s Bone
My Kingdom For A Corpse by Mark Wilshin
CAUTION: Here be spoilers.
It’s rare for a film to arrive in our cinemas that feels uniquely and peculiarly American. And yet Debra [...]
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Festival: London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2010
April 7th, 2010 No Comments
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!
CAUTION: Here be spoilers.
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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Film Review: A Single Man (2009)
February 18th, 2010 No Comments
A Single Man
Colin Firth mesmerises as a grieving gay college professor, but can dressing Isherwood’s novel up in a sharp new suit say anything about 21st century queerdom?
The Unbearable Lightness of Loafers by Mark Wilshin
CAUTION: Here be spoilers.
Watching A Single Man just days after the suicide of gay fashion guru Alexander McQueen, Tom Ford’s debut [...]
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