Film Review: Eternal Beauty
A warm, compassionate, and at times lovingly humorous approach to mental illness, Eternal Beauty features another excellent performance from Academy Award nomineeContinue Reading
Category: Marie O’Sullivan’s Film Reviews
Film Review: Waiting for the Barbarians (2020)
Beautiful vistas mask something more violent in a border town in Ciro Guerra’s adaptation of J M Coetzee’s novel Waiting forContinue Reading
Film Review: Wonders in the Suburbs (2020)
Eclectic French humour, quirky romance and chaotic satire collide in Jeanne Balibar’s Wonders in the Suburbs, which features some of France’sContinue Reading
Film Review: Burning Ghost (2020)
A Parisian romance with a rather unusual premise – Burning Ghost is best viewed with as little advance knowledge as possible. TheContinue Reading
Film Review: The Bare Necessity (2020)
Warm-hearted, lightly comical and vaguely philosophical, The Bare Necessity channels a touch of Wes Anderson in small-town France – don’t be putContinue Reading
Film Review: Out Stealing Horses (2020)
Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland continues his collaboration with the legend that is Stellan Skarsgård in this tender look backContinue Reading
Film Review: The Cuban (2020)
A simple yet heart-warming story of an octogenarian musician and a young care home employee who forge a friendship throughContinue Reading
Film Review: The Painted Bird (2020)
A film adaptation of Jerzy Kosiński’s acclaimed but controversial novel The Painted Bird always had the potential to be divisive. Czech directorContinue Reading
Film Review: The Tobacconist (2020)
First love and a friendship with Sigmund Freud feature in a pre-war Vienna, where the creeping presence of National SocialismContinue Reading
Film Review: Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020)
Any self-respecting Eurovision Song Contest fan will have been waiting for Netflix’s Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire SagaContinue Reading