biopic
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A Quiet Passion
For his latest cinematic treat the veteran British auteur Terence Davies has written and directed a visually stunning period-drama biopic on the great American poet Emily Dickinson. Born into a prominent Massachusetts family in 1830, but Davies starts his story when as a rather troublesome young woman, Emily (Emma Bell) is cutting short her studies at Mount…
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The Dancer
When you see the spectacular and rather breathtaking dancing scenes in this movie you can understand why writer/director Stéphanie Di Giusto chose to make her very first feature film very loosely based on Loie Fuller the great French/American dancer of the Belle Époque period. However Di Gusto takes great liberties with telling the dancer’s story and…
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Rules Don’t Apply
It’s been 15 years since Hollywood legend Warren Beatty was last seen on our screens, and a further 3 years since he was also in the directors chair too. Now he is back with a passion project of his that he has been evidently gestating for decades, so much so that is in fact he…
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The Man Who Knew Infinity
This well-meaning biopic about a lowly Indian Clerk who is a self-taught maths genius who at the beginning of the last century claimed he could “give meaning to negative values of the gamma function” a major feat that had baffled the most learned British professors for decades, sadly does not add up to much. It is…
