Birds Eye View · 2008
15 films · 15 reviews
This is a heartwarming film in the truest sense of the word.
(Country: US; Year: 2007; Director: Jennifer Venditti; Stars: Billy P., Penny Baker, Heather Pelletier)
The story of five women working in and around a Beirut beauty salon may not, at first glance, seem especially intriguing, but Caramel is something special.
(Country: France, Lebanon; Year: 2007; Director: Nadine Labaki; Writer: Rodney El Haddad, Jihad Hojeily; Stars: Nadine Labaki, Yasmine Elmasri, Joanna Moukarzel, Gisèle Aouad, Sihame Haddad, Adel Karam, Aziza Semaan, Fatmeh Safa, Dimitri Staneofski) , Official site , Trailer
A powerful and heart-rending call to attention.
(Country: USA; Year: 2007; Director: Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg; Writer: Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg; Stars: Brian Steidle) , Official site
(Country: UK; Year: 2007; Director: Leigh Hodgkinson; Writer: Leigh Hodgkinson)
For all its many flaws, Flying: Confessions Of A Free Woman is a considered triumph of filmmaking.
(Country: Denmark, USA; Year: 2006; Director: Jennifer Fox; Writer: Jennifer Fox; Stars: Jennifer Fox) , Official site
Some might consider Sandrine’s documentary an act of courage in the pursuit of truth, while others, distressed by the exposure of her sister's humiliation, may see it as an intrusion into personal grief.
(Country: France; Year: 2007; Director: Sandrine Bonnaire; Writer: Sandrine Bonnaire, Catherine Cabrol; Stars: Sabine Bonnaire)
A simple, moving documentary.
(Country: UK; Year: 2007; Director: Kim Longinotto)
The film has a wistfulness, which draws you in.
(Country: UK; Year: 2007; Director: Kelly Neal)
Everything about this film marks it out as a masterpiece.
(Country: US; Year: 1941; Director: Preston Sturges; Writer: Preston Sturges; Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest, Eric Blore, Melville Cooper.)
Quirky directorial touches – such as Vellini’s blowing of smoke rings, or a dimming of sound at key moments - put the audience into the head of the protagonist and help us connect us fully with the characters.
(Country: France; Year: 2007; Director: Catherine Breillat; Writer: Catherine Breillat, adapted from the novel by Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly; Stars: Asia Argento, Fu'ad Ait Aattou, Roxane Mesquida, Claude Sarraute, Yolande Moreau, Michael Lonsdale, Anne Parillaud, Jean-Philippe Tesse)
An enjoyable and romantic little short, with a good dollop of wry humour.
(Country: France; Year: 2007; Director: Alice Winocour; Writer: Alice Winocour; Stars: Johanna ter Steege, Eriq Ebouaney)
It is the natural, often charming, performances that give this 12-minute film its heart.
(Country: Palestine; Year: 2006; Director: Cherien Dabis; Writer: Cherien Dabis; Stars: Mayar Rantisse, Lone Khilleh, Iman Aoun)
Seen purely in aesthetic terms, Persepolis is an object of rare beauty, with no obvious precedents or parallels in the history of anime.
(Country: France/US; Year: 2007; Director: Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud; Writer: Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud, based on the original graphic novels by Marjane Satrapi; Stars: voices of Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Simon Abkarian, Gabrielle Lopes, François Jerosme, Sean Penn, Gena Rowlands, Iggy Pop) , Trailer
An object lesson in less is more, it makes an absolute virtue of its small cast and diminutive budget.
(Country: UK; Year: 2007; Director: Joanna Hogg; Writer: Joanna Hogg; Stars: Kathryn Worth, Tom Hiddleston, Mary Roscoe, David Rintoul, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Harry Kershaw, Michael Hadley, Emma Hiddleston, Leonetta Mazzini)
Darin... again proves that he can break your heart with a look, conveying unspoken emotion with a glance that taps you into his pain.
(Country: Argentina, France, Spain; Year: 2007; Director: Lucía Puenzo; Writer: Lucía Puenzo; Stars: Inés Efron, Ricardo Darín, Valeria Bertuccelli, Martín Piroyansky, Germán Palacios, Lucas Escariz, Luciano Nóbile, Carolina Pelleritti)
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