Shoplifters (Manbiki kazoku)
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s SHOPLIFTERS hits the screen with an incredible sense of anticipation, writes Chloe Goldsmith.
Category Archives: Reviews
L’Animale
L’ANIMALE is a sincere, unflinching tale of a young woman grappling with her identity, writes Joe McLauchlan.
Shock Waves – Diary Of My Mind
Student writer Jorvan White reviews SHOCK WAVE – DIARY OF MY MIND at the Cambridge Film Festival.
A Woman Captured
A deeply emotive, harrowing documentary about one woman’s life as a servant and slave that will completely open your eyes to the reality of current-day slavery in Europe.
From Cairo to the Cloud
This is a story of archaeological discovery and of social history, of religious belief and humanism, of outsiders and pioneers, and at its heart, people.
Miss Dalí
Towards the end of her life, Anna Maria Dalí ruminates on her relationship with her brother, the painter Salvador, from their beginnings in the northern Catalan city of Figueres, through his often scandalous career, to his sad decline and death in 1989. This is a curious enterprise, which retains most of the faults of a … Continue reading Miss Dalí
Gwendolyn
Gwendolyn Leick is many things: a writer, an anthropologist and a mother. A woman in her mid-sixties who moved to the UK forty years ago, lured here by the British Museum and cosmopolitan way of life. A cancer patient who, at the age of 52, took up weightlifting, and has since become a European and … Continue reading Gwendolyn
I Love My Mum
There’s no denying this raucous road movie has its moments, with effective comic interplay between the slatternly Olga (Kierston Wareing) and her equally feckless and foul-mouthed son Ron (Tommy French, both of them EastEnders alumni). During one of the film’s many slap-fights while Olga and Ron are on a late-night hunt for cheese, the car … Continue reading I Love My Mum
Life Itself
A collection of love stories spanning two continents and three generations, LIFE ITSELF proves not only desperately maudlin and judderingly contrived, but also a masterclass in how not to write a screenplay or how to play on the emotions of your audience in anything except the most cynical fashion. There’s an accusation sometimes levelled at … Continue reading Life Itself
The Marquis De Wavrin: From The Manor To The Jungle
Directors Grace Winter and Luc Plantier’s first feature length documentary, THE MARQUIS DE WAVRIN: FROM THE MANOR TO THE JUNGLE, is an atmospheric leap into the life of Marquis Robert de Wavrin, the first white man to encounter the infamous “head-shrinking” Shuar Indians. Despite occasional pacing issues and a tendency to veer on the side … Continue reading The Marquis De Wavrin: From The Manor To The Jungle