‘This movie does us a service in bringing this brave woman’s story to the attention of a new generation. Due justice is done to the awful gravity of the events that prompted her most important work, but it’s a pity that so much time is wasted on awkward melodrama which at times swamps her personal story.
Category: Film Reviews
Despite the sometimes harrowing sadness there is compassion, humour and hope in Memoir of a Snail. Do go and see it. It’s ultimately uplifting and I bet it wins lots of awards. I think it’s a minor masterpiece.
I didn’t see the original Beetlejuice but I read a review of this sequel which said I didn’t […]
A Faustian pact that goes pear-shaped. Throw in McKellen’s masterful performance and fabulous art deco sets and you’ve got your money’s worth.
I read a review of this movie which said the only regrettable thing about it was the terrible […]
‘There’s a lot of pleasure to be had in watching the hero of a story struggling upwards against the odds towards a glorious outcome no one knows about yet except us, the audience. ‘
Drug-fuelled punk hip-hop meets virulent Irish nationalism in this origin story of the Belfast band Kneecap. It’s so weird and wild and transgressive it’s hard to believe it’s essentially true.
In French Version ‘Bernadette’ Legendary French actress Catherine Deneuve plays Bernadette Chirac, wife of Jacques Chirac in this […]
“Like so many children of Holocaust survivors, Lily Brett was haunted by her parent’s suffering, and by the ghosts of the family she would never know – the ones who had perished in the ghettoes or the death camps. She was consumed by a desire to visit the places her parents had lived and to share and perhaps understand what they had endured.”
This movie was made by an Aussie man called Bill Bennett who did the Camino de Santiago in […]