San Sebastian Film Festival · 2015
14 films · 14 reviews
His - and Johnson's - real triumph in Anomalisa comes in the smaller gestures and human moments
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman; Writer: Charlie Kaufman; Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh, David Thewlis, Tom Noonan)
The production and costume design by Huang Wen-ying combine historical accuracy with a revelation of detailed splendour.
(Country: Taiwan, China, Hong Kong; Year: 2015; Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien ; Writer: Hou Hsiao-hsien, Chu T'ien-wen, Hsieh Hai-meng; Stars: Shu Qi, Chang Chen, Sheu Fang-yi, Hsieh Hsin-ying, Zhou Yun, Juan Ching-tian, Tsumabuki Satoshi)
It's true what they say about violence. Too much and you become immune.
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Scott Cooper; Writer: Mark Mallouk, Jez Butterworth, based on the book by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill; Stars: Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dakota Johnson, Kevin Bacon, Peter Sarsgaard, Jesse Plemons, Rory Cochrane, Adam Scott, Corey Stoll, David Harbour, Juno Temple, Julianne Nicholson, W. Earl Brown, Brad Carter)
The film is briskly paced, infused with energy and the backdrop remains interesting.
(Country: Argentina, Spain; Year: 2015; Director: Pablo Trapero; Writer: Julian Loyola, Esteban Student, Pablo Trapero; Stars: Guillermo Francella, Peter Lanzani, Lili Popovich, Antonia Bengoechea, Franco Masini, Gastón Cocchiarale, Stefanía Koessl, Giselle Motta)
Hitchcock/Truffaut has the intriguing aura of a first episode with all the questions answered easily producing 500 more to be asked.
(Country: France, US; Year: 2015; Director: Kent Jones; Writer: Kent Jones, Serge Toubiana; Stars: Wes Anderson, Olivier Assayas, Peter Bogdanovich, Arnaud Desplechin, David Fincher, James Gray, Alfred Hitchcock, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Richard Linklater, Paul Schrader, Martin Scorsese, François Truffaut)
The story is not as well-developed as it should have been but it’s an enjoyable enough treat for Allen fans for whom he can do no wrong.
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Woody Allen; Writer: Woody Allen; Stars: Emma Stone, Joaquin Phoenix, Parker Posey, Jamie Blackley, Ethan Phillips, Meredith Hagner)
Out of competition
As cool as a multi-coloured popsicle.
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon; Writer: Jesse Andrews, based on his novel; Stars: Thomas Mann, RJ Cyler, Olivia Cooke, Nick Offerman, Connie Britton, Molly Shannon, Jon Bernthal, Katherine C. Hughes, Matt Bennett, Bobb'e J. Thompson)
A bold study of what it means to be Chinese in the modern age.
(Country: China, Japan; Year: 2015; Director: Jia Zhangke; Writer: Jia Zhangke; Stars: Zhao Tao, Zhang Yi, Dong Jing, Dong Zijian)
Desplechin, like no other, startles with his enigmatic perceptions on the gender divide.
(Country: France; Year: 2015; Director: Arnaud Desplechin; Writer: Arnaud Desplechin, Julie Peyr; Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Lou Roy-Lecollinet, Quentin Dolmaire, Léonard Matton)
Nobody sneaks up on you, light-footed, perplexing, hilarious, quite the way Nanni Moretti does with his scenes.
(Country: Italy, France; Year: 2015; Director: Nanni Moretti; Writer: Gaia Manzini, Chiara Valerio; Stars: Margherita Buy, John Turturro, Giulia Lazzarini, Nanni Moretti, Beatrice Mancini)
It is in the women's emotions that the heart of the matter lies and Kore-eda, as always, handles them with an elegant lightness of touch.
(Country: Japan; Year: 2015; Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda; Writer: Hirokazu Kore-eda, based on the manga by Akimi Yoshida; Stars: Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa, Kaho, Suzu Hirose, Ryô Kase, Ryôhei Suzuki)
Villeneuve sustains the knife-edge tension without a blip.
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Denis Villeneuve; Writer: Taylor Sheridan; Stars: Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, Jon Bernthal, Benicio Del Toro, Jeffrey Donovan)
This is a claustrophobic, breathing-down-your-neck look at man's inhumanity to man - as though the Dardennes brothers had taken a one-way ticket to hell.
(Country: Hungary; Year: 2015; Director: László Nemes; Writer: László Nemes, Clara Royer; Stars: Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn)
It’s a wonderfully subversive act...but on its own merits (which I’m sure is how Panahi would want it to be judged) it seemed to me overlong, repetitive and self-indulgent.
(Country: Iran ; Year: 2015; Director: Jafar Pahani; Writer: Jafar Panahi; Stars: Jafar Panahi)
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