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Director Gaspar Noé who brought you the almost unbearably painful 20 minute rape sequence in Irreversible now takes an equally unrelenting look at old age.
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Vortex  (15) |Close-Up Film Review

May 14, 2022May 14, 2022 Carol Allen Alex Lutz, Dario Argento, Françoise Lebrun, Vortex

Director Gaspar Noé who brought you the almost unbearably painful 20 minute rape sequence in Irreversible now takes an equally unrelenting look at old age.

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Barry and Joan
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Barry and Joan  (12A) |Close-Up Film Review

May 9, 2022May 9, 2022 Carol Allen Barry and Joan, Barry Grantham, Joan Grantham

In the seventy odd years they have been together, Barry and Joan Grantham embody a living history of musical and comedy entertainment, as this delightful documentary demonstrates. 

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Operation Mincemeat  (12A) |Close-Up Film Review

May 9, 2022May 9, 2022 Carol Allen Colin Firth, Kelly McDonald, Matthew Macfadyen, Operation Mincemeat

This is based on the true story of an operation in World War 2, which changed the course of the war in Europe and which may be familiar to some film goers, as it was first made into a movie in 1956 under the title The Man Who Never Was.

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Milena Smit as Ana, Penélope Cruz as Janis in PARALLEL MOTHERS.
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Parallel Mothers (15) |Close-Up Film Review

April 30, 2022May 1, 2022 Carol Allen Israel Elejalde, Milena Smit, Parallel Mothers, Penelope Cruz

The parallel mothers of the title are two single women who find themselves accidentally pregnant and who meet when they share a room in the maternity hospital.  

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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent  (15) | Close-up film Review

April 22, 2022April 22, 2022 Carol Allen Nicholas Cage, Pedro Pascal, Sharon Horgan, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

Anyone, but particularly an actor, who doesn’t take themselves too seriously, has my respect and liking.  In this case it’s Nicholas Cage.   The title of the film says it all really. 

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Benedetta, which is released in cinemas in UK & Ireland on 15 April 2022
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Benedetta  (18) |Close-Up Film Review

April 15, 2022April 15, 2022 Carol Allen Benedetta, Charlotte Rampling, Daphne Patakia, Virginie Efira

Paul Verhoeven’s film is inspired by a report found in the archives of Florence of the trial for blasphemy and lesbianism of Benedetta, a young nun, which took place in the early 17th century.  

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The Lost City  (12A) |Close-Up Film Review

April 15, 2022April 15, 2022 Carol Allen Brad Pitt, Channing Tatum, Daniel Radcliffe, Sandra Bullock, The Lost City

The deliberately derivative plot of The Lost City is a sort of cross between the Rider Haggardism of Indiana Jones and the romantic fantasies of Barbara Cartland and Mills and Boon.  

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The Northman
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The Northman  (15) |Close-Up Film Review

April 15, 2022April 15, 2022 Carol Allen Alexander Skarsg, Claes Bang, Ethan Hawke, Nicole Kidman, The Northman

This Viking tale is not for the faint hearted.  It is loaded with violence, living up to the historic Viking reputation, plus a bit of sex and a lot of mysticism.   And it is very impressive.

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Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore will be released nationwide on 8th April 2022 by Warner Bros. Pictures
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Fantastic Beasts:  The Secrets of Dumbledore  (12A)|Close-Up Film Review

April 7, 2022April 7, 2022 Carol Allen Eddie Redmayne, Fantastic Beasts:  The Secrets of Dumbledore, Jude Law, Mads Mikkelson

If you are an avid reader of Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling’s work and the films made from it, you will really enjoy this third film in the Fantastic Beasts series, which purports to tell us more about the secret past of Albus Dumbledore.

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True Things  (15) Close-Up Film Review

March 31, 2022March 31, 2022 Carol Allen Hayley Squires, Ruth Wilson, Tom Burke, True Things

Writer/director Harry Wootliff’s first feature film Only You was an intimate and sensitively handled relationship drama about a couple whose love affair founders when they try and fail to have a baby.   

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