Patience (After Sebald) sees Grant Gee’s richly-textured path meander through the Suffolk countryside and the work of the acclaimed Anglo-German writer.
Patience (After Sebald)
Post-War Paths by Laura Bennett
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Better known for his rock-band documentaries, Grant Gee’s latest feature-length film focuses on retracing the steps of the internationally acclaimed Anglo-German writer and academic W.G. (Max) [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Laura Bennett'
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
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In simple terms John Akomfrah’s The Nine Muses can be summed up as an unlikely trilogy of Homer’s Odyssey, the [...]
Tags: 2010 · Arvo Pärt · cinema · Dante · dogandwolf · film · film review · Homer · James Joyce · John Akomfrah · Laura Bennett · London Film Festival · Odyssey · Reviews · Shakespeare · The Nine Muses · UK
Film Review: Mysteries Of Lisbon / Mistérios de Lisboa (2010)
January 3rd, 2012 1 Comment
Prolific Franco-Chilean director, Raúl Ruiz’s penultimate film, Mysteries of Lisbon, is a labyrinthine, pan-European, Proustian epic that twists and turns across the generations.
Mysteries of Lisbon
The Art of Memory by Laura Bennett
His final fully-complete film finished not long before his death, aged 70, in August 2011, Mysteries of Lisbon is Ruiz’s swansong and crowns a supremely accomplished legacy. A [...]
Tags: 2010 · Camilo Castelo Branco · cinema · dogandwolf · film · film review · Laura Bennett · London Film Festival · Mistérios de Lisboa · Mysteries Of Lisbon · Portugal · Proust · Raúl Ruiz · Reviews · Time Regained
Film Review: Perfect Sense (2010)
October 8th, 2011 No Comments
Perfect Sense
Sense and Sensibility by Laura Bennett
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David Mackenzie’s Perfect Sense is a twist on both thriller and love story as a couple find each other while the world around them crumbles, sense by sense. Set in Glasgow, Perfect Sense, the love story, begins like any other. Susan, played by the almost supernaturally [...]
Tags: 2010 · cinema · David Mackenzie · dogandwolf · Eva Green · Ewan McGregor · film · film review · Laura Bennett · Perfect Sense · Reviews · UK
Film Review: Film Socialisme (2010)
July 8th, 2011 No Comments
JLG is back to his impenetrable best with Film Socialisme, a cascading multi-lingual mosaic of ideas and comment presented as a symphony in three reassuringly dense movements.
Film Socialisme
Ship of Fools by Laura Bennett
His first film in six years, the God(ard)father of French cinema is back with a bang. Shown as part of the Un Certain [...]
Tags: 2010 · cinema · documentary · dogandwolf · film · film review · Film Socialisme · France · Jean-Luc Godard · Laura Bennett · London Film Festival · Mark Wilshin · Nouvelle Vague · Patti Smith · Reviews
Film Review: Love Like Poison / Un Amour Violent (2010)
May 18th, 2011 No Comments
Ivorian director, Katell Quillévéré’s first feature, Love Like Poison is a tender coming of age tale set amid the religious fervour of small-town Brittany.
Love Like Poison
Praying for Salvation by Laura Bennett
Love Like Poison (Un Poison Violent) begins as a young teenage girl, Anna, returns from a distant boarding school to her family home nestled among [...]
Tags: 2010 · cinema · dogandwolf · film · film review · France · Laura Bennett · London Film Festival · Love Like Poison · Reviews · Un Amour Violent
Film Review: Nénette (2010)
February 4th, 2011 No Comments
Nicolas Philibert’s latest documentary observes the supreme diva, Nénette, a 40-year old orang-utan and the star attraction at Paris’ Jardin des Plantes zoo.
Nénette
Monkey Business by Laura Bennett
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Taking centre-screen for almost the entire length of this 68 minute film (one can’t help but wonder how many of this year’s Best Actress nominees could [...]
Tags: 2010 · cinema · documentary · dogandwolf · Être et Avoir · film · film review · France · Laura Bennett · Nénette · Nicolas Philibert · Reviews
Film Review: The Thorn in the Heart / L’Épine dans le Coeur (2010)
December 12th, 2010 No Comments
Franco-Hollywoodien director Michel Gondry’s latest, L’Épine dans le Coeur, turns the camera en his own famille in this heartfelt documentary.
The Thorn in the Heart
Keeping it in the Family by Laura Bennett
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Best known for the Oscar-winning Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the decidedly off-the-wall Be Kind Rewind, and a never-ending list of videos and ads for the [...]
Tags: 2010 · cinema · documentary · dogandwolf · Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind · film · film review · France · Laura Bennett · L’Épine dans le Coeur · Michel Gondry · Reviews · The Thorn in the Heart
Film Review: Mammoth / Mammut (2010)
November 4th, 2010 No Comments
His first English language film, Swedish director Lukas Moodysson’s Mammoth is a global story of haves and have nots intertwined with complex family relationships.
Mammoth
Whole World in his Hands by Laura Bennett
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Opening with a classic happy family scene, Leo and Ellen Vidales laugh and play with their daughter Jackie in the wide-open spaces [...]
Tags: 2010 · cinema · dogandwolf · film · film review · Gael García Bernal · Laura Bennett · Lukas Moodysson · Mammoth · Michelle Williams · Reviews
Film Review: Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
Film Review: Patience (After Sebald) (2012)
Film Review: The Nine Muses (2010)
Film Review: Shame (2011)
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