drama
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LE HAVRE
There is a wonderful old-fashioned sensibility in this latest movie from idiosyncratic Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki that portrays an essentially gritty story about a major casualty of contemporary life as a somewhat sentimental fairy tale. Set in the French Port Town it tells of Marcel a shoeshine man who plies his diminishing trade wherever he…
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RINCO’S
Rinco, a young Japanese girl, runs away from home (and when you catch sight of her mother you soon know why), and she is bought up by her odd but nice grandmother who instills in her a real passion for cooking. So much so that by the time Granny dies she scrapes together enough money…
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WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN
As the film opens it shows Eva living a squalid life on her own as a total social outcast where strangers assault her in the street. Life has not always been like that and through a whole series of flashbacks interchanged with the present, we learn how she ended up like this. Once happily married…
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WEEKEND
For the ‘NY Times’ to review a ‘gay’ movie is far too rare an occurrence but when A.O Scott, its senior Critic, goes one step further and gives one a rave review, then you know that that this is no ordinary film. This wee British movie shot over two weeks and as the title suggests,…
