Returning to Reims – Cannes 2021 Review Lydia Rostant July 15, 2021 Reviews Depicting the complex fabric of society is never an easy task. In his latest film Returning to Reims, filmmaker Jean-Gabriel Périot attempts to coalesce over 80 years of history to tell the story of...
Deerskin – Review Louise Burrell July 15, 2021 Reviews Tearing through its meagre 77-minute runtime, Deerskin wastes no time on plot set-up. It becomes quickly apparent that the storyline simply consists of: man buys deerskin jacket, man believes deerskin jacket...
ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2020: #2 – Portrait of a Lady on Fire Scott Wilson December 31, 2020 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Released less than a month before the UK entered lockdown, Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a memory from the Before Times. Not only is it about so much of what has been taken from us this year, but the film...
Céline Sciamma, Water Lilies, and the Complications of Youthful Desire Nick Davie May 11, 2020 Analysis, Close-Up, Features Céline Sciamma is having a moment. Following the 2019 festival debut and this year's cinematic release ofPortrait of a Lady on Fire, she is currently the subject of Mubi UK's 'Focus on' retrospective. This...
Portrait of a Lady on Fire – Review Tom Bond February 13, 2020 Reviews Originally reviewed as part of our Cannes Film Festival coverage in May 2019. Portraying someone in a work of art inevitably means gathering intimate details about their life. The way they blush when...
The Unknown Girl (La Fille Inconnue) – Cannes 2016 Review Nick Evan-Cook May 19, 2016 Reviews The Dardenne brothers’ take on a detective story is highly introverted and moves with a quiet confidence befitting of its heroine – however it lets itself down with an underwhelming resolution and the...
