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Film of the week: What Maisie Knew
Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s modernising of Henry James’ child’s-eye divorce study swaps the master’s scalpel for a spoonful of sugar – but does give Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan room to humanise their monstrous parents, says Philip Horne.
Friday 23 August 2013 -
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Caught between old and new mores, a borrowed wife learns the blues in this snapshot of repressive hypocrisy in Austria’s Turkish enclave, writes Philip Kemp.
Friday 16 August 2013 -
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Echoes – of the past and the lost, of people and their stories – seep into this richly resonant portrait of a sound recordist documenting west Ireland’s unpeopled landscapes. Mark Sinker fills in the gaps.
Friday 9 August 2013 -
Film of the week: Paradise: Hope
Real-life teenage ‘diet camp’ kids get somewhat happy in this surprisingly conciliatory finale to Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy, says Michael Brooke.
Friday 2 August 2013 -
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Floating on a magnificent performance by co-writer Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach’s retro portrait of modern love in New York could have used some sting, says Sophie Mayer.
Friday 26 July 2013 -
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The first Saudi teen rebel girl’s bike movie has its eyes on the prize, says Hannah McGill.
Friday 19 July 2013 -
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Guillermo del Toro’s metal-monster sci-fi has the awesome to give you nosebleeds – but protagonists who seem long ago lobotomised, says Kim Newman.
Friday 12 July 2013 -
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Film of the week: Blancanieves
Hot on the heels of The Artist, Tabu and Frankenweenie, this silent Spanish-Cinderella fantasia is a gloriously entertaining rumination on families, film history, fairytales and Spanish folklore, says Mar Diestro-Dópido.
Friday 12 July 2013 -
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Film of the week: A Field in England
The English Civil War is but fog in Ben Wheatley’s oblique, ominous and wickedly idiosyncratic barney through the old weird England, says Philip Kemp.
Friday 5 July 2013 -
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Film of the week: Night of Silence
A too-young bride, a too-old groom, the ghosts of the past and a long night of two souls: Reis Celik’s spartan marital-chamber drama is less Before Sunrise than Scheherazade, says Philip Kemp.
Friday 28 June 2013
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