Wes Anderson’s love letter to The New Yorker magazine and to old France is totally mad, totally original, delightful and unpredictable. It’s also surreal in places and often very funny. I loved it.
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This is a medieval tale with a contemporary #MeToo angle, based on a book by medieval specialist Eric Jager, which in turn is based on a true story – a story which gives us a rather different view of life in a period, which has often been portrayed in the movies as one of chivalry and courtly love.
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German actor Daniel Brühl makes his debut as director in this film as well as taking the co-starring role. He demonstrates he can handle both tasks with his usual aplomb.
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At 175 minutes David Wilkinson’s documentary is even longer than the new James Bond movie. But it is worth your attention, albeit for different reasons.
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The setting of the story is Newark, New Jersey in the late sixties and early seventies. The title is a pun on the name of the only saints there – the Moltisanto family, most particularly Dickie Moltisanto
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Joint writer/director team Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor have come up with a strong story idea here, which deals with adoption, the nature of identity and sexual violence.
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This Aretha Franklin biopic covers the first twelve years of the singer’s career when in her teens and twenties up to her hit gospel album Amazing Grace in 1972, which was the biggest seller of her career.
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At the very beginning of the film we see Sandra (Clare Dunne) being beaten up by her partner Gary (Ian Lloyd Anderson) while her little girl is running for help, carrying a note from her mother outlining her plight.
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This was originally intended to be a concept album by the cult pop group Sparks. They then sent it to director Leos Carax as an idea for a film – and the project developed from there. The result is a bizarre and original musical fantasy with minimal dialogue.
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It’s not often an actor in his sixties is asked to “age up” for a role but in The Last Bus Timothy Spall, in real life a strong and healthy sixty four year old, convincingly plays Tom, a man who has to be in his eighties or even nineties,
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