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Suffer the children Directors before Michael Haneke have asked the same fundamental question that permeates his elegiac, trenchant study of darkness and light, Das weiße Band (2009) – namely, with specific reference to Germany, from whence did the affiliation with fascism rise, and how did a people turn a blind eye to the atrocities in their [...] Heart of darkness Can’t you just feel the excitement? Picturenose is approaching its 300th post (this would be number 294), so a good time to talk about Vinyan (2008), the most recent film by Belgian horror master, Fabrice Du Welz. Regular PN readers will be only too aware how well Du Welz’s first film, Calvaire (The [...] Party time? A real surprise this one – a family get-together that goes horribly wrong but at the same time provides redemption, Thomas Vinterberg’s film (he went uncredited as director, as per Lars Von Trier’s ‘Dogma’ rules), with an electrifying screenplay by Winterburg and Mogens Rukov, has more than a few nods to Harold Pinter’s play [...] The nature of evil It’s rare, for me, to find a film that very nearly defies my capacity to describe it – and that’s not meant to be a self-aggrandising statement on my skills as a film reviewer, even if it sounds like it. I have loved film since I was very small, and feel very lucky [...] |
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