Noémie Lvovsky is the writer, star, and director of Camille Rewinds, a bittersweet French time-travel comedy and a film which sadly may not receive the attention it very much deserves. Lvovsky portrays the titular Camille, a woman who drowns herself in whisky to compensate for her failing acting career and her deteriorating marriage to a Read More
Patrice Leconte’s adaptation of Jean Teulé’s novel The Suicide Shop (2006) evokes a healthy blend of Tim Burton and The Addams Family (1964-1966). Leconte’s film is set in a near apocalyptic version of France where recession is driving suicide rates through the roof and causing an increased workload for the law enforcement bodies. The police, Read More
Le Prénom (What’s in a Name?) is Mathieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière’s oftentimes hilarious adaptation of their farcical, dinner-table comedy from the stage to the big screen. The vast majority of the movie takes place in the apartment of Pierre (Charles Berling) and Élisabeth (Valerie Benguigui) who are desperately attempting to prepare dinner. Read More
First impressions are everything. Taking this into account, the first impression of the DCA this Saturday was that of a sea of children sitting rows in front of me with mouse masks on, whispering excitedly about the school trip they were on. A sense of wonder hangs over the cinema. At the film’s gentle, self-referential Read More
A story of war, Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master is vibrantly and colourfully created, clashing with the dark and serious issues dealt with in the narrative. Freddie (Joaquin Phoenix), a World War Two soldier, returns home with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The film briefly covers his time within a military hospital but focuses mainly Read More
Recently, I had the pleasure of interviewing Percival Everett, Professor of Literature at the University of Southern California and author of novels such as Erasure, I Am Not Sidney Poitier and Assumption. Everett, who hails originally from the United States, has relocated with his family to Paris for a year. My current research explores identity Read More
Argo is the third feature length film to be directed by Ben Affleck, who also plays the leading role. The film is both a tense hostage rescue drama and a comedy that gleefully mocks the machinery of Hollywood. As indicated in its introduction, the film is based on real events. In 1979, the US embassy Read More
Skyfall has already proved to be a phenomenal success both with critics and at the box office. Even viewing the film two weeks after its release, at an afternoon viewing, the cinema was verging on being full to capacity. This is the twenty-third James Bond film and coincides with the fiftieth anniversary of the release Read More
As part of the Discovery Film Festival the DCA screened Punch (Wan-Deuk-I), directed by Lee Han. The film was a phenomenal success in South Korea, selling around five million tickets during its box office run. Based on the novel Wandeuk (2008) by Kim Ryeo-Ryung, the story revolves around 17 year old Doh Wan-Deuk (played by Read More
Swedish film, The Crown Jewels, (Kronjuvelerna) is an intriguing escape into the world of magical realism. The film, which was shortened for theatrical release from the original television series, delivers an enormous amount of information for the audience to digest in a very short amount of time. Providing a snapshot of relationships between people in Read More