Fire (Both Sides of the Blade) – Glasgow Film Festival 2022 Review Carmen Paddock March 10, 2022 Reviews Fans of Claire Denis’ Let the Sunshine In will find familiar ground in her latest feature. She reunites with Juliette Binoche for another tale of a woman’s search for that elusive romantic spark, but this...
Who You Think I Am – Review Josefine Algieri April 10, 2020 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in February 2019 as part of our Berlinale Film Festival coverage. Who You Think I Am has a plot we have all seen or heard before: Claire (Juliette Binoche) is a woman in...
The Truth – Review Carmen Paddock March 21, 2020 Reviews This film was previously reviewed as part of our Glasgow Film Festival coverage in March 2020. As the truth becomes a more and more contentious issue in contemporary media, The Truth feels a throwback to a...
High Life – Review Chris Edwards May 10, 2019 Reviews Travelling at 99% of the speed of light, Clare Denis’s latest feature High Life sees Robert Pattinson’s Monte attempt to raise a baby daughter in deep space. Focusing on three distinct periods in Monte’s...
Doubles Vies (Non-Fiction) – Venice 2018 Review Jack Blackwell September 1, 2018 Reviews As diverting as Non Fiction is, you would never want to spend an extended period of time with any of its characters. A cadre of dry, self-serious intellectuals, they’re all having affairs and engaging in...
The Brilliance of Juliette Binoche Patrick Nabarro April 17, 2018 Analysis, Features, Spotlight Juliette Binoche. The name alone brings connotations of a very particular brand of imperious arthouse cinema. Seeing it in the opening credits is a near guarantor of a cerebral viewing experience; a patent by...
Clouds of Sils Maria – Review Rachel Brook May 16, 2015 Reviews 1 Comment Like an unassuming and subtler Birdman, Clouds of Sils Maria takes advantage of its actor protagonist Maria (Binoche) in order to probe a potential overlap between fiction and reality. A dawdling...