Film Review: The Divine Order (2017)
byRemember when women couldn’t vote? Of course not; it was 1908 when Victoria became the last Australian state to grant womens suffrage. But what…
Foreign
Film Review: The Square (2017)
byChristian (Claes Bang) is a top curator at a renowned contemporary art museum in Stockholm. He’s handsome, well-groomed, charming, intelligent and articulate. From this…
Film Review: Happy End (2017)
byOne of the true auteurs of cinema, Michael Haneke, returns to the screen with his dark comedy/family drama Happy End. The film is a convoluted tale of a…
Film Review: The Wound (2017)
byIn his harrowing and quite controversial debut feature, South African director John Trengove has created a throughly confronting addition to the current crop of…
Film Review: Faces Places (2017)
byOn the face of it, filmmaker Agnès Varda and artist JR make an improbable team. Varda is an 89-year-old female director who initiated the…
Film Review: Mary and the Witch’s Flower (2017)
byHaving previously directed Studio Ghibli’s final film When Marnie Was There, Hiromasa Yonebayashi has returned to our screens with the debut feature of Studio…
Film Review: Slack Bay (2016)
bySlack Bay (Ma Loute) is very difficult to categorise or to explain. Is it a period farce? Or an Agatha Christie style murder mystery?…
Film Review: Sami Blood (2016)
byThe first feature film by writer-director Amanda Kernell raises subject matter that should be more than a little familiar to Australians. This Swedish director’s…
Film Review: Just to be Sure (2017)
byJust to be Sure (Ôtez-moi d’un Doute) is charming and funny, and perfectly timed for the holiday season. Erwan (François Damiens) is a bomb tester…
Film Review: In this Corner of the World (2016)
byHayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli has experienced so much success that, in the public mind, it has utterly co-opted the Japanese cinematic ‘anime’ landscape. When…