The sound is enveloping, excellent, a submarine hunting for its missing guitar, a synthetic-aperture-radar love-song, ambience built steadily from Jurgen Gruber's audio samples.
An experiment in the cinematic experience of multi-layered sound.
It is a sign of the strength of McNally's script that the film has attracted telly regulars Lysette Anthony and Sara Stewart to the roles of Kate and Vanessa.
After her husband leaves her, Kate’s friend Vanessa has the perfect solution to her despair – vodka, grass and a road trip.
In a black hair salon in gentrifying Brooklyn, the local residents fend off a strange new monster: white women intent on sucking the lifeblood from black culture.
Bunel's performance is big, emotional, and it makes complete sense that Adèle would be this way, yet in positioning it in contract to Kouka's quietness, director Paul Marques Duarte forces a change of perspective.
A teacher taking a class on a school trip to England spontaneously makes room for a young migrant in their midst.
Balancing its grim observations with sly humour, it very effectively captures the community dynamics in both the home and the workspace.
As the tensions and frustrations of life in a community house start to close in on him, a young man with Down Syndrome realises he may have to cross a line to end a nightly disturbance.
Hidden In Frame too often substitutes melodrama for observation, ultimately undermining the very political relevance that makes its subject matter so compelling.
When Nata returns to her late grandmother’s flat amid Georgia’s political unrest, a secret hiding behind closed doors brings private and public crises together.
The cultural interaction is by far the film's greatest asset.
A documentary about two climbers exploring a remote Indian valley who discover what is perhaps the biggest treasure trove of unclimbed ice in all the Himalaya.
The darkness in the film is balanced by humorous observations about the way that kids in general tend to take their support frameworks for granted.
Two children, raised in total isolation by an automated house, begin to confront the mysteries of their existence after an enigmatic stranger arrives from outside.
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