A subtle take on bereavement
Back in the 1960s the chief film censor would sometimes express amazement that anyone would want to see this or to hear that as part of an entertainment.
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Styling in Beirut
THE female characters in the Lebanese film Caramel are older but not always wiser, when it comes to men, than those English teenagers in Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging.
Girls kiss and tell it like it is
“WELCOME to the tragic universe that is my sad life.”
Stark anti-war cry
An almost agonisingly candid recollection of the horrific events that occurred during the 1982 Israeli incursion into Lebanon.
Stranger danger
A cold-blooded tale of two young killers who terrorise and mentally torture an ordinary couple and their son.
When art mimics art
Son of Rambow (PG) 2½ stars Limited national release DIRECTOR Garth Jennings follows The Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, his debut feature, with the rather odd Son of Rambow, about the friendship formed between two very different English schoolboys in 1982.
Crime and banishment
ANOTHER film in which characters find themselves in an unfamiliar environment is the French Welcome to the Sticks.
Conflict no solution
MARTIN McDonagh is usually referred to as an Irish playwright, though he was born in London (of Irish parents) and apparently has lived in Britain longer than he has in Ireland.
Glory days of the grindhouse
Not Quite Hollywood (MA 15+) 3½ stars National release SINCE Mark Hartley’s entertaining and informative documentary Not Quite Hollywood opened the Melbourne Film Festival a few weeks ago, a great deal has been written and discussed about Australian exploitation cinema.
Enjoy the scenery
My Blueberry Nights (M) 2½ stars Limited national release WONG Kar-wai is one of the most influential of all the Chinese directors but, while watching his first English-language film, My Blueberry Nights, I started wondering if the Chinese dialogue in, say, In the Mood for Love, was, if I could understand it, as sappy as the dialogue in his new film.
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