Archambault has succeeded in making a film with her subjects and not simply about them – imperfections and all, while the musical element serves her purpose perfectly.
Smothered by a bulky spacesuit, Zhalnin has only his face, framed within the helmet, to act with, yet manages very effectively to convey the conflict of delight and terror that the situation inspires.
Its plot unfolds in fits and starts, like summer holidays remembered.
A dramatic love triangle set against the backdrop of raging bushfires. The summer nights hardly cool off and the parties keep getting wilder. Falling in love for the first time is a mysterious thing and here lies the danger for Billie, Danny and Laura.
Ben Kingsley excels as the unassuming hero who leads his countrymen to freedom from British rule using peaceful means, however you can't help but be disappointed by other aspects of the film.
Richard Attenborough’s epic
tracing the rise of Gandhi from
lawyer in South Africa to an
Indian leader who won
independence for his people.
Any film about Gandhi will inevitably invite comparisons to Richard Attenborough’s, but Khan... has created a much more intimate, low-key exploration of the man rather than the myth.
In 1906, Gandhi’s eldest son Harilal joins his father at his recently-founded communal farm/ashram in South Africa. But as Gandhi’s civil rights campaigning gathers pace, the relationship between the two men becomes strained.
Perhaps not as good as the sum of it’s parts, McGuigan’s second effort is visually impressive, a great comeback for McDowell and a launching pad for Bettany.
As his former mentor is due for release from jail a gangster considers his life.
Garage is one of the most depressing films I have seen in a long time, a scathing indictment of the way we treat the mentally subnormal, but it's enlivened by its own brand of dark humour.
The life of a lonely petrol station attendant is changed forever when he is befriended by a bored teenager.
A powerful and moving documentary, which appears to give a thorough and frank portrait of its subjects and the impact of poverty and malnutrition upon their lives.
Hard-hitting look at families suffering malnutrition in Brazil.
Hodge is confident and clever enough to let the story tell itself
Maverick architect Michael Reynolds has spent years building eco-friendly ‘sustainable’ homes in New Mexico. Just as the state authorities crack down, a call for help comes from an island hit by the Asian Tsunami.
By the time Frost heads north, Perkins has ensured we are fully invested in his quest and carefully chooses his shots to suggest an opening out of the Londoner's understanding.
Documentary about a man's quest for treasure and spirituality.
While all of the characters might be gay, they are still every bit as generic, obnoxious, vapid and thinly drawn as their usual heterosexual slasher-fodder counterparts.
Homophobic homicidal bed and breakfast owners set about picking off their gay guests.
This is an immersive documentary, evoking the period, and arguing the case that although the unbridled hedonism did bring dangers and problems with it, there was also something of a idyllic euphoria experienced by those in this first wave of gay freedom,
Documentary exploring the gay abandon of New York's homosexual community in the decade after Stonewall.
As is the case with too many comedies in the age of Apatow, the female characters all seem like afterthoughts, and the film’s sexual politics are achingly conservative.
A young music executive must take a problematic rock star from London to Los Angeles in time for a career-dependent concert.
