LET MY PEOPLE GO
Exactly who the people that need to be freed in this mildly amusing comic farce is never really made clear. Could it be Jews, or the Homosexuals, or the French or even the Finnish? There are a multitude of stereotypes in this rather convoluted comedy written by Christophe Honore who I am now beginning to … Continue reading
Let Yourself Go
This is one of those old-fashioned screwball comedies that Hollywood may have given up on, but seemingly is still a film genre that has a place in Italian cinema This is the tale of a 60-ish-year-old Jewish psychoanalyst Elio (Toni Servillo) who is so bored with most of his patients that he is quietly tucking into pastries … Continue reading
LETTERS TO JACKIE : REMEMBERING PRESIDENT KENNEDY
To mark the 50th Anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy Oscar winning Director Bill Couturié (‘Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt’) has produced this tribute to the late President using some of the myriad of letters of condolences his widow received in the months after his death. They had a lot to choose from …. … Continue reading
LETTERS TO JULIET
Sophie, a young gauche American woman is in Verona for a pre-honeymoon trip (?) and is abandoned by her fiancé, a budding chef who prefers hanging out in kitchens and wine cellars than doing the usual tourist sites. She comes across a wall where desperate women attach letters to Juliet (Shakespeare’s one) bitching about how … Continue reading
Leviathan
Award-winning Russian director Andrey Zvagaintsev’s new epic movie opens to the dramatic tones of a Phillip Glass prelude as the camera scans over the desolate sight of a remote small fishing community that looks like it may have seen better times. It is on the Kola Peninsula in northern Russia and its almost deserted coastline … Continue reading