Arthouse Reviews: The Tribe
The opening sequence of the highly acclaimed film The Tribe reminds you there are no translations, no subtitles or voice overs (nor any kind of musical score) but that doesn’t quite prepare you for this strange and challenging film. ‘For love and hatred, you don’t need translation’ according to the film’s young Ukrainian writer-director […]
Art in the House: Horace Ove’s Art
As well as being one of Britain’s leading black independent film-makers, Horace Ove is an acclaimed photographer who has documented racism and the Black Power movement in Britain over many decades. His photographs have been exhibited in a number of prestigious galleries including the Tate and the National Portrait Gallery and Arthouse is delighted to […]
Arthouse Reviews: The Falling
At first sight The Falling seems full of female stereotypes: the hysterical teenagers, uptight repressed middle-aged women and the neurotic mother. But there’s a lot more to each character than first appears and a great deal of subtlety in the film as a whole. This is an unconventional mystery drama with elements of horror, […]
Arthouse Reviews: A Little Chaos
The beautifully photographed landscaped gardens deservedly earned Alan Rickman’s film A Little Chaos the accolade of ‘the official film of RHS Gardening Week’. This is a story of royal horticulture and seventeenth century French courtly life, with some romance and feminism thrown in. Head gardener, Andre le Notre (Matthias Schoenaerts), employs the green-fingered Sabine […]
