Filmmaker and actor Sarah Polley is used to being filmed, but her family are not. Polley’s latest film as director is a documentary about her
Tag: Canadian cinema
River of Life and Death: Women, Religion, Power and Purity in Water
Water is the third and most accomplished film in director Deepa Mehta’s Elements Trilogy, which consists of three films that are thematically linked together rather
Film review – Incendies (2010)
A slow fade up on a serene shot of the desert gradually pulls back to reveal a room full of armed men shaving the heads
Film review – Splice (2009)
You know that you’re in for a wild ride when the film begins with a point-of-view shot of a genetically synthesised organism being born in
Film review – Blindness (2008)
Blindness is an adaptation of a 1995 novel Ensaio sobre a cegueira (Essay on Blindness) by the Nobel-laureate novelist, playwright and journalist José Saramago. The
Film review – Away from Her (2006)
Writer and director Sarah Polley adapted Away From Her from a short story by Alice Munro specifically for Julie Christie (Doctor Zhivago and more recently
