Posts Tagged ‘Charlotte Gainsbourg’
Author: Otilia
Just a tree?
Written and directed by Julie Bertuccelli – Since Otar Left (2003) – The Tree (2010) is an adaptation of the novel Our Father Who Art in the Tree by Judy Pascoe, and had the honour of closing the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.
It’s a family drama set in Boonah in Queensland, Australia, where there is a huge Morten Bay fig tree that ‘whispers’.
Author: James
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 to have the opportunity to write about it for a living, which is why I hope you will believe me when I say that, should you take the risk (and believe me, that’s what it is) of seeing Lars von Trier’s Antichrist (2009) for yourself, as opposed to merely reading hyperbolic reviews such as this one, you will leave safe in the knowledge that you will NEVER see its like again.
Author: James
Looking for America
Writer-director Emanuele Crialese (Respiro (2002), Once We Were Strangers (1997)) sets his tale of immigrants’ dreams in Sicily at the beginning of the 20th century – the (at times brutal) immigrant experience is portrayed, stretching from a dirt-poor Sicilian hamlet to Ellis Island, the ‘Golden Door’ to the United States.
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