5 min movie guide
ETIENNE
When it comes to bizarre this enchanting quirky tale about a loner taking his dying best (and only) friend on a road trip is definitely up there. Especially when you know that the said best friend is a dwarf hamster named Etienne. Richard drifts through his gentle small life. He’s just got a new job…
TRISHNA
A new Winterbottom movie is always something that I really look forward too with great anticipation, partly because it’s almost impossible to predict what genre he will choose let alone the subject matter. After last year’s wonderfully funny ‘The Trip’ Mr Winterbottom, one of the UK‘s most versatile and prolific directors, has gone back to the…
CORIOLANUS
If I had one regret about by youth (!) it would be that I never really studied enough Shakespeare in school, which is so sad as his incomparable prose just sings. Especially when it is performed as well as in actor/director Ralph Fiennes’s new modern-day take on Coriolanus : yet another of Will’s plays that…
A Dangerous Method
This should have been subtitled ‘all you need to know about how psychoanalysis was first created when Freud & Jung decided all our behavioral ‘problems’ were based on sexual hang-ups’. Of course in David Cronenberg’s movie, almost drowning in dialogue, the psycho-babble between these two great men in particular gives a much more refined take than I do on this…
