This beautiful tale of Chopin and Ravel brought to life on an out-of-tune piano features moody silences and devastatingly subtle filmography. It is a work about how one holds the deepest of pains and sharpest of taboos closest to one’s chest. Because words are tools too lumpen to describe them.
A microcosmic reflection on the ongoing war between Russia and the Ukraine, ‘Grey Bees’ is Beckettian in its existential crises, dark humour and give and take between the two characters, Serhiich (Viktor Zhdanov) and Pashka (Vladimir Yamnenko). They’ve known each other for decades and are utterly indifferent to one another.
‘Dying’ is an outrageously beautiful understanding of grown-up life in all its messiness, and in particular, the life choices of one who creates.
This film gives you a guttural love of the universe to take home with you. Stripped cleanly of platitudes, it is unabashedly about grabbing life in fists full of pungently ripe blackberries and holding on to one’s self-belief and one’s privacy, come what may.
FRENCH CUISINE HAS a filmographic lure all of its own. It’s about copper-based skillets and the bouquet of finely aged wines, the pairing of unusual flavours and the digging in wet earth for just the right flavoured truffle that will be sensitively grated into a dish to create […]
SHE MINCES INTO the world with her highlights and her backless lace frock, all the bits and bobs of feminine je-ne-sais-quoi perfectly in place. She’s totally unaware of how crazily anomalous she is to her peers. She’s been made into a monster, but she’s too young to understand […]
CHILDREN LEARN WHAT they live is an iconic poem written by Dorothy Law Nolte in the 1950s. With catching rhythms of repetition, it presents the different values that can shape a child. But one not taken into consideration is that of utter emotional abandonment. In the Irish film, […]
IF YOU TAKE a slice out of the formalities of matchmaking and weddings from Fiddler on the Roof, and slot it in alongside some of the more potent scenes involving the beautiful widow in Nikos Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek, sprinkle the concoction rather heavily with romanticised farmgirl wholesomeness, […]
TAKE A PERFECTLY insane tale of paternal love and marital abhorrence, the filthiest vagaries of colonialist practice, the prospect of freedom and untold wealth. Toss them in the air with a gun, a visual sensibility to weep for and an understanding of sound that is at once contemporary […]
WAR PRESENTS CASUALTIES on levels far wider than the conventional battle fields. There is the horror of a lack of closure, relentless vulnerability and ripples of hatred spewed in so many directions, conjoined as it often is, with ignorance. In The Old Oak, director Ken Loach takes on […]
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