Is Danish director Lone Scherfig creating a new genre of revisionist romantic films? Her three English-language films on the surface all appear to be mainstream
Category: Film review
Film review – Pina (2011)
Wim Wenders’s Pina is partly a documentary but mostly a tribute to German choreographer Pina Bausch. The majority of the film consists of performances by
Film review – The Illusionist (2010)
With his combination of physical comedy, sentiment and social critique, Jacques Tati is often regarded as the French Charlie Chaplin. The Illusionist is an animated
Film review – Jane Eyre (2011)
The challenge of adapting a novel, especially one that is so loved and very much considered a classic, is to ensure that it captures the
Film review – The Beaver (2011)
The Beaver is one of the strangest and most inconsistent dramas in recent years. The core idea of having Mel Gibson play a middle-aged man
Film review – Hanna (2011)
A dark modern fairy tale crossed with an international spy thriller, Hanna is an exhilarating film that draws on a range of cultural anxieties surrounding
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