ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2021: #9 – Spencer Calum Baker December 30, 2021 Analysis, Features In its interminable wardrobing, lavish setting and populist pro-Princess pitch, Spencer would seem to perfectly embody what Christopher Hitchens once labelled the “kitsch iconography” that surrounds its...
Spencer – Review Tom Bond November 4, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in September 2021 as part of our Venice Film Festival coverage. Pablo Larraín’s Princess Diana biopic, Spencer, gets about as far away from a cradle-to-grave template as...
Ema – Review Jack Blackwell May 1, 2020 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in October 2019 for our London Film Festival coverage. No two Pablo Larraín films are quite the same but, even so, Ema marks a departure. An opaque story told mainly...
Neruda – Review L D April 8, 2017 Reviews Off the back of his Jackie Kennedy bio comes Neruda, Pablo Larraín’s portrait of the womanizing poet-politician unusually told from the perspective of the detective inspector attempting to track him down....
Pablo Larraín: Bringing Edge to the Period Biopic Nick Evan-Cook January 19, 2017 Analysis, Features, Spotlight Chile is not all lovely wine, productive copper mines, and functional yet attractive attacking football - in recent years its diverse, powerful and cultured arthouse cinema industry has enjoyed a strong and...
El Club – Review Danielle Davenport March 27, 2016 Reviews El Club traverses its traumatic themes with lyricism, dark humour and jolting explicitness shaped by a cleverly written and constructed screenplay. It maintains a remarkable atmosphere, instilled by evocative...
The Club – An Interview With Chilean Maestro Pablo Larraín Nick Evan-Cook March 21, 2016 Behind The Curtain, Features, Interview "God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness." So begins Chilean auteur Pablo Larraín's latest opus El Club, which...
