Arthouse Reviews: Wild Tales
It’s what writer-director Szifrón calls ‘the undeniable pleasure of losing control’ and it’s certainly an undeniable pleasure to watch his film Wild Tales. At times it’s also very shocking, tense and difficult but most of all it’s laugh out loud, hilarious. Here are six short films tied together by a common theme about how […]
Arthouse Reviews: Mommy
If you’ve been waiting for a great film with two fantastic female leads then Xavier Dolan’s Mommy is the one to see. On one side of a street in suburban Quebec lives Die (Anne Dorval), the loud, brash single mother of a son with severe ADHD. On the other side is Kyla (Suzanne Clement) […]
Arthouse reviews: Suite Francaise
Early in Suite Francaise someone says you need a war to really know the character of a person and what’s most interesting about this film is the way it uncovers the character of the French town’s inhabitants after the Nazis invade. Some are shameless in their collaboration, welcoming the commanding officers with gifts and […]
Arthouse Reviews: x+y
thouse Reviews Morgan Matthews’ debut feature X+Y adds up to more than a formulaic heart-warming Brit indie film. That’s because he avoids the obvious clichés and keeps a focus on the relationships between the main characters which are so brilliantly and sensitively observed by the three lead actors. It’s the story of Nathan, a […]
