Final Cut – Cannes Film Festival 2022 Alysha Prasad May 18, 2022 Reviews Michel Hazanavicius’ meta zombie flick Final Cut (Coupez!), a French-language remake of Shin'ichirō Ueda’s 2017 cult film, One Cut of the Dead, opens this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Set in a disused...
Redoubtable – Review Louise Burrell May 10, 2018 Reviews This film was previously reviewed on 08/11/17 as part of London Film Festival. Much celebrated and documented, Jean-Luc Godard inspires Hazanavicius’ latest offering Redoubtable. Instead of a straight...
Michel Hazanavicius on Redoubtable Louise Burrell May 8, 2018 Behind The Curtain, Features, Interview Based on French actress Anne Wiazemsky's autobiography, Redoubtable is an intimate biopic of a very specific period in Jean-Luc Godard's life. Following his overwhelming success as the leader of French New...
Redoubtable – LFF 2017 Review Louise Burrell October 8, 2017 Reviews Much celebrated and documented, Jean-Luc Godard inspires Hazanavicius’ latest offering Redoubtable. Instead of a straight biopic, he instead focuses on a specific time in Godard’s life where he falls in...
Sweet Dreams – Review Marcus Beard February 25, 2017 Reviews There's something so Italian about big, wholesome families with a lot of extra love to give. In Sweet Dreams, an Italian film from director Marco Bellocchio, we watch the life of a man struggling to cope with...
Is La La Land Just The Artist All Over Again? Phil W. Bayles February 1, 2017 Analysis, Debate, Features Here at ORWAV, we just can't stop talking about La La Land. And with good reason - Damien Chazelle's modern take on old-school Hollywood has been nominated for an impressive 14 Academy Awards, and enchanted...
The Childhood of a Leader – EIFF 2016 Review Rachel Brook June 29, 2016 Reviews Brady Corbet’s first film as director has several excellent and even jaw-dropping elements, but the glacial pace does try viewers' patience. Explicit division into three acts using title cards does nothing...
The Past – Review Chris Davies March 26, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” - L.P. Hartley There are echoes of Hartley’s The Go-Between in Asghar Farhadi’s latest, depicting children caught in the fallout of...