Exploring the City and the Self in Jeune Femme Sinead McCausland May 17, 2018 Close-Up, Features, One Off Whether you're a Francophile or not, we’ve all seen and experienced at least one version of the streets of Paris. In 1951’s An American in Paris, Vincente Minnelli turned the Parisian streets into an...
Planetarium – LFF 2016 Review Stephanie Watts October 26, 2016 Reviews Planetarium is a film that leaves the audience doing a lot of guessing. Two American sisters, Laura and Kate Barlow (Natalie Portman and Lily-Rose Depp), are working as mediums in Paris and are employed by...
Mr. Morgan’s Last Love – Review Stephen O'Nion July 11, 2014 Reviews Last Love begins with Michael Caine attempting an American accent and wandering the streets of a rose-tinted Paris, in mourning. Having fallen in with Poésy, herself nursing issues - “I like your beard,...
We’ll Never Have Paris – EIFF Review Cameron Ward July 9, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment Directed by both Simon Helberg and his (unfortunate) wife Jocelyn Towne, We'll Never Have Paris features Helberg's (cringingly) semi-autobiographical proposal story in what appears to be something akin to a...
3 Days to Kill – Review Stephen O'Nion June 20, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment Kevin Costner is Ethan Renner. Fresh from washing his mouth with gravel and his brain with cancer, he must injure and kill anyone he comes across to satisfy the wishes of his handler, Amber Heard… ... An...
In Secret – Review Stephen O'Nion May 17, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment In Secret feels like a film that has sat in stasis, waiting - to get made, for its cast to stabilise, for its leads to maybe even make it big. In a claustrophobic, stagey Paris primarily existing within a...
The Citizen Kane of Awful: LOL Tom Bond April 26, 2014 Features, Nostalgia, The Citizen Kane of Awful 1 Comment Cast: Miley Cyrus, Douglas Booth, Ashley Greene, Demi Moore Director: Lisa Azuelos Writers: Lisa Azuelos, Kamir Aïnouz Estimated Budget: $11 million U.S. Gross: Unknown When people...