Falling (15) | Close-Up Film Review
Viggo Mortensen, who makes his feature film writing and directing debut here, was inspired to make the film by memories of his relationship with his own late father.
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Viggo Mortensen
Falling (15) | Close-Up Film Review
Jauja (15) Close-Up Film Review
auja (pronounced how-huh, in case you were wondering) is not a film for the impatient. Or even the moderately patient, come to that. Lisandro Alonso’s period drama, which is set in Patagonia during the ‘Conquest of the Desert’ (a military campaign in the 1800s to rid the South American region of aboriginals), trudges along with deliberate sluggishness, stretching out each and every scene as if it were made of non-breakable elastic.
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Crimes of the Future (18) | Close-Up Film Review
I confess I am somewhat baffled by David Cronenberg’s latest film. In terms of its sometimes gross and startling images and incomprehensibility it is reminiscent of early Cronenberg films like The Brood and Videodrome, before he made The Fly and started to win a wider fan base.
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Viggo Mortensen on Jauja
Mortensen plays a 19th century captain searching for his daughter, in what is referred to as ‘Patagonia’ in his latest big screen release. The great Dane (via Argentina and America) spoke to George Meixner about the new project.
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