Romantic Movie Reviews

Cinema Movie Review: To the Wonder (2012)

Apr

2013

The wonder of Malick ‘You shall love. Whether you like it or not.’ If director Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life (2011) was his Hollywood movie, then To the Wonder (2013) is his indie flick. Please understand that Malick is my favorite director. Therefore, he is like my wife. I am blinded with love and ...

Cinema Movie Review: Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

Apr

2013

Play-safe ending takes edge off To begin, Silver Linings Playbook (2012) was nominated for eight Oscars including Best Picture, Best Actor (Bradley Cooper), Best Actress (Jennifer Lawrence), Supporting Actor and Actress (Robert De Niro and Jackie Weaver), and director (David O. Russell).

DVD Movie Review: De battre mon coeur s’est arrêté (The Beat That My Heart Skipped) (2005)

Mar

2013

Music hath charms… One of those films that sort of snuck up on me is De battre mon coeur s’est arrêté (The Beat That My Heart Skipped) (2005) – my friend and flat-mate had been suggesting for a while that I might like Jacques Audiard‘s study of a man on the brink of adulthood, who ...

Cinema Movie Review: Night Train to Lisbon (2013)

Mar

2013

Picturesque but lacking pace I’ve never read a book that was so inspiring it caused me to leave my job, board a train, and interview people for the better part of a week. However, I have seen a film or two that made me yearn to throw my computer out the nearest window, grab my ...

Movie Review: Moonrise Kingdom (2012) 1

Oct

2012

Facing the hurricane Picturenose warmly welcomes our latest recruit, US-born Brussels resident Zoe-Deluca Hewetson, who offers her thoughts on Wes Anderson‘s latest. When going to see a movie you expect a mostly generic plot, a beginning, some tension, a middle, some heightened tension and an end. Or at least I find myself expecting this – ...

Move Review: Amour (Love) (2012) 3

Sep

2012

Finding a way Always a happy day when we welcome a new recruit to Picturenose’s ranks of reviewers – Elisabeth Kovacs from Brussels is our latest addition, and she opens her account with her thoughts on Michael Haneke‘s Palme d’Or winner. Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) are a refined, cultivated and elegant couple ...

Jean de Florette (1986) & Manon Des Sources (1986)

Aug

2012

Hope springs eternal? Ah! I watched Jean de Florette (1986) by Claude Berri a couple of weeks ago, and it reaffirmed my love of French cinema, with its beautiful cinematography, wonderful and realistic acting as well as its unforgiving depiction of the harsh realities of life in rural France. I tried reading the book by ...

To Rome with Love (2012)

Jul

2012

Roaming free Another year, another Woody Allen film. I am aware that this may cause distress for some misguided souls, but not me – like waiting in line to see the latest James Bond flick, there is always a rare expectancy about every Woody pic – such is the prolific frequency of the director’s work, ...

Trishna (2011) 6

Jun

2012

Vexed revision Michael Winterbottom (The Road to Guantánamo (2006)) was certainly ambitious in choosing to adapt Thomas Hardy‘s classic novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles, update it and set it in modern-day India – Roman Polanski‘s Tess (1979) was the most recent cinematic adaptation of Hardy’s tale, but comparisons between that and Winterbottom’s film are largely ...

My Week with Marilyn (2011)

Mar

2012

Waste of talent In 1956 Colin Clark, who is now a British documentary film-maker, spent some time with Marilyn Monroe while she was working on The Prince and Showgirl (1957) in England. He later published a book, which has now been brought to the screen by Simon Curtis in My Week with Marilyn (2011).

Last Tango in Paris (1972) 4

Jan

2012

Spread ‘em Last Tango in Paris (1972) is perhaps the most talked-about film in cinema history, thanks mainly to a certain scene involving a dairy product. So, what more could I add that hasn’t been said already? OK, here goes… Bernardo Bertolucci (writer-director) and Marlon Brando (star) stand accused of altering the face of an ...