dir. Ken Loach
UK, 2013
Saddening and angry-making history of the Welfare State.
Monday, 25 March 2013
Tout est pardonné
dir. Mia Hansen-Love
France, 2007
The first film by the director of The Father of My Children and Goodbye, First Love. All the components of these later films are there, in unsurprisingly less polished or controlled ways: long temporal periods, often with a "before/after" structure, here it's Vienna 1995, France 2006; the way the film eventually comes round to its central concern, the coming-of-age of a teenage girl, but how her 6 year-old self is peripheral in the first half except somehow you realise she's also central; the use of British folk music, somehow as a soundtrack of maturation; absent or problematic fathers. One day I'll write about this properly.
France, 2007
The first film by the director of The Father of My Children and Goodbye, First Love. All the components of these later films are there, in unsurprisingly less polished or controlled ways: long temporal periods, often with a "before/after" structure, here it's Vienna 1995, France 2006; the way the film eventually comes round to its central concern, the coming-of-age of a teenage girl, but how her 6 year-old self is peripheral in the first half except somehow you realise she's also central; the use of British folk music, somehow as a soundtrack of maturation; absent or problematic fathers. One day I'll write about this properly.
Tabu
dir. Miguel Gomes
Portugal, 2012
Literally a film of two halves. First bemusingly dull, the second - a silent film with a voice-over - a wonderful piece of cinema, as intoxicating as the first was confusing.
Portugal, 2012
Literally a film of two halves. First bemusingly dull, the second - a silent film with a voice-over - a wonderful piece of cinema, as intoxicating as the first was confusing.
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
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