To coincide with England’s 200th year anniversary of the end of the slave trade, Amazing Grace is a stirring drama about abolitionist William Wilberforce. Devoted Christian, animal rights activist, and incredibly youthful Member of Parliament in his 20s, Wilberforce sacrificed a large portion of his life and his health to end the highly profitable trade of African slaves to English owned plantations.
Comments Off on Film review – Amazing Grace (2006) | 
Film review | Tagged: 7 Up, Albert Finney, Amazing Grace, English cinema, Enigma, historical film, Ioan Gruffudd, Michael Apted, William Wilberforce | 
Permalink
Posted by Thomas Caldwell
Marie Antoinette is a period film with an indi/teen film sensibility. Having already proven herself on The Virgin Suicides and Lost in Translation as a director with talent to burn, Sofia Coppola has possibly set herself her biggest challenge yet. Marie Antoinette tells the story of France’s controversial last queen not as a weighty historical drama about the French Revolution, but as the story of a teenage girl with strong modern sensibilities. Audiences expecting scenes of suffering peasants, enraged revolutionaries and climatic beheadings are going to be sorely disappointed.
Comments Off on Film review – Marie Antoinette (2006) | Film review | Tagged: Barry Lyndon, French Revolution, historical film, Jason Schwartzman, Judy Davis, Kirsten Dunst, Lost in Translation, Marie Antoinette, period film, Rose Byrne, Sofia Coppola, Stanley Kubrick, teen film, The Cure, The Virgin Suicides | Permalink
Posted by Thomas Caldwell
Writer, broadcaster, film critic, public speaker and film programmer.
Films I loved in August 2019
Essential Guide to Understanding, Analysing and Writing on Film
By Thomas Caldwell
Available from Insight Publications
