Where Do We Go Now? 13 Feb 2013 Director: Nadine Labaki France, Lebanon 2011 110 min A Lebanese comedy-drama about religious conflict may not seem an obvious recipe for success, but this film manages to pull off the tricky balancing act with wit and aplomb. Director Labaki also stars, as one of a group of… Continue reading Et maintenant on vaou?
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Amour
06 Nov 2013 Director: Michael Haneke France 2012 127 min With his unflinching script, Michael Haneke directs this honest, heart-wrenching depiction of deep love and responsibility. With exceptionally powerful performances from Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva, the film is an intimate account of an elderly couple facing their greatest challenge in the twilight years of… Continue reading Amour
La source des femmes
The Source Director: Radu Mihaileanu 13 Mar 2013 Belgium 2011 135 min While this charming film from the director of ‘The Orchestra’ might appear to have parallels with ‘Where do we go now?’, in fact its theme of empowered women runs closer to ‘Made in Dagenham’. The women of the unnamed village have been expected… Continue reading La source des femmes
Wadjda
02 Apr 2014 Director: Haifaa al Mansour Saudi Arabia 2012 98 min Wadjda is a 10-year-old girl living in a suburb of Riyadh. She is fun-loving, entrepreneurial and always pushing the boundaries of what she can get away with. After a fight with her friend Abdullah, a neighbourhood boy she shouldn’t be playing with, Wadjda… Continue reading Wadjda
Le gamin au vélo
The Kid With A Bike 27 Mar 2013 Directors: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne Belgium 2011 87 min The Dardenne brothers (Lorna’s Silence, The Child) have created another piece of transcendent and gripping cinema from a grittily mundane story. Eleven-year old Cyril is a troubled boy: abandoned by his father, he searches obsessively for his bicycle,… Continue reading Le gamin au vélo
Dialogue avec mon jardinier
Conversations With My Gardener 25 Sept 2013 Director: Jean Becker France 2007 109 min In this beautifully crafted celebration of the pleasures and value of friendship, Daniel Auteuil plays a successful and affable painter who decides to leave Paris and return to his rural hometown in the throes of a mid-life crisis. At first he… Continue reading Dialogue avec mon jardinier
A Late Quartet
09 Oct 2013 Director: Yaron Zilberman USA 2012 105 min With its suitably resonant title, this film is a subtle and intelligent observation of the internal dynamics of the New York based Fugue String Quartet. When Peter Mitchell (Christopher Walken), the founder and cellist, receives a life changing diagnosis, the group’s future suddenly hangs in… Continue reading A Late Quartet
The Closet
Le Placard 17 Dec 2003 France 2001 84 min Director: Francis Veber Francois Pignon has a problem; he is boring, so bland in fact that his wife has left him and his 17 year old son has abandoned him. Now even his employers are tired of him; he is to lose his job as an… Continue reading The Closet
Shadow Dancer
27 Feb 2013 Director: James Marsh UK 2012 101 min This taut and pacey 90s-set thriller is carried along almost singlehandedly by the performance of Andrea Riseborough, who manages to come across as both vulnerable and utterly resolute. She plays IRA activist Colette, coerced by MI5 officer Mac (Clive Owen) into turning on her Belfast… Continue reading Shadow Dancer
Encounters At The End Of The World
4 Nov 2009 Director: Werner Herzog USA 2007 99 min This is a fascinating and visually entrancing documentary by the veteran filmmaker Werner Herzog. The filmmaker travels to the Antarctica community of McMurdo Station. The station is the headquarters of the National Science Foundation. In the Antarctic summer it is home to eleven hundred men… Continue reading Encounters At The End Of The World