Flare — A–Z of films

Campillo has a weakness in not knowing when to trim all the talking.

Kindness and joy not always come to mind when one thinks of the fashion world. This is the rare portrait where they do. As the documentary unfolds, we marvel at the diversity, the celebratory mood.

Everything feels alive and the production design by Judy Becker is impeccable.

Both lead actors are well chosen. Bressan Jr directs with a quiet assurance that gives them lots of room to work but ensures that the film never tips over into melodrama.

It is fundamentally a film about the workings of infatuation with a charmed fever that contaminates its characters.

The film cuts through al the intellectual debate around these subjects to remind us of the human experiences at their core.

Lelio makes no bones about how he wants us to feel, to the point where it sometimes feels as though he is stating the obvious is six-foot neon letters.

A film like this is a costume designer's dream.

Debut feature director Francis Lee grew up on a Yorkshire farm and it shows in every inch of this film.

A mixed bag, as while Everett the actor masterfully evokes the mournful mix of decadence and decay of the last years of Wilde, Everett the filmmaker is, like so many before him, too much in love with the brilliant old rogue for his own good.

Cunningham's characters are credible and beguiling, and skilfully rendered by the cast.

Nice

We get to see every inch of Hassane's skin without ever truly being able to get beneath it.

What's really revolutionary about this film is the way Ivory photographs male bodies.

Perhaps there are certain questions that we don't need asked; or if they are to be asked, a certain care in the way they are asked would be helpful.

Technically impressive given the conditions in which some of it is filmed, Sidney And Friends is a powerful piece of filmmaking exploring the human impact of prejudice and simple ignorance.

Trengove strikes a good balance between showing the cultural importance, even though on the wane, of old-fashioned masculinity and personal drama between Xolani and Kwanda, slowly ratcheting up the tension to breaking point.