Film Review: Le Havre (2011)
byAki Kaurismaki‘s latest feature is an odd pairing of young and old, foreign and local. Marcel Marx (Andre Wilms) is a down on his…
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Film Review: The Raid (2012)
byThere’s a famous scene in Tony Jaa’s The Protector where our hero, searching for the mob boss who stole his elephant (don’t ask) has…
AFFFF Review: 17 Girls (2011)
byAn inadvertently vicious indictment of teenage empowerment, 17 Girls (17 filles) half-heartedly tries to portray its central characters – a group of high school…
AFFFF Review: The Rabbi’s Cat (2011)
byNarrator: “So my master sat me down for my first lesson in Judaism…” Rabbi: “Here’s how the world began. The Lord God created the…
Film Review: The Source (2011)
byThe Source is dolled-up as a bright, musical fable of female independence, but is essentially a story of the hopeless situation for the female…
Film Review: A Separation (2012)
byFrom the comfort of a house in a suburb of a major city in a Western nation, Iran can feel like a world away.
Film Review: The Artist (2011)
byCelebrity is just obscurity biding its time. These words were spoken by the delectable Carrie Fisher in her one woman show Wishful Drinking and…
2012 ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL
byThe word is out. This year’s French Film Festival will kick off in Sydney on March 6, coming to Melbourne the following day.
Film Review: The Skin I Live In (2011)
byRobert Ledgard (Antonio Banderas) is a revered plastic surgeon who keeps a woman in a locked room on constant surveillance inside his house. Vera…
Film Review: This is Not a Film (2010)
byTroubled Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s house arrest while awaiting news on a court appeal is documented in This Is Not a Film.