The richness of the colour onscreen separates the world Almodovar presents from reality, isolating the characters in their own dimension, and its use is very reminiscent of films of the French New Wave, particularly Jacques Demi’s Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and Jean-Luc Godard’s A Woman Is A Woman (1961).
Courtesy of Transmission Films, Film Blerg is giving away 10 double passes to see I’M SO EXCITED, in cinemas from September 19. Film Synopsis: Pedro Almodovar returns…
A superficial scrutiny of The Best Offer might assert it to be a slightly unpalatable story of love-across the-age-divide between Virgil Oldman (Geoffrey Rush), successful antique art auctioneer with his own priceless collection of female portraits, and Claire Ibbetson (Sylvia Hoeks), twenty something agoraphobic orphan of life-long antique collectors.
The best way to describe Charles Swan III is that it feels like an unfunny episode of Family Guy, in which the plot walks off on tangents so wild that it’s easy to forget the primary storyline.
At turns exuberant, witty and poignant, Frances Ha is a refreshing take on the quarter-life crisis, and one can only look forward to Baumbach and Gerwig’s next joint venture.
Zombie movies are all the rage right now and seem on a path to knock vampires off the top of the preferred mystical creature to use in a film ranks, but there is a huge divide between good Zombie movies and bad Zombie movies.
A beautifully staged period film, Farewell, My Queen fictionalises the final days of the French monarchy. The opulence and superfluous ceremony that is usually characterised in films about Louis the XVI and his infamous bride Marie Antoinette
Amour begins with an audience awaiting a performance, mirroring its own audience staring back at its frames. Echoing moments of great auditorium scenes in…
Courtesy of Transmission Films, Film Blerg is giving away 5 double passes to see the retirement years comedy from Dustin Hoffman, in his directorial debut: QUARTET, out in…
Dustin Hoffman makes his official feature film directorial debut with an appropriate story of seasoned veterans coming together for a special performance.