Sophie grew up in a household where television and film watching was banned but ended up friends with a boy who owned all four Jaws films on VHS. The suspense and shark-inflicted gore was shared and with it the news that fiction is better than reality. Having rewatched Jaws as an adult and screamed and jumped in the best way possible, she pronounces that film The Daddy. The sequels? Jaws 2 the handsome son, Jaws 3 the spoilt child, Jaws: The Revenge, well…the mad aunt. But "Mario van Peebles" is fun to say. Try it when in a bad mood and see if it doesn't cheer you up.
Sophie would really like to make a film at some point, preferably a daring, ambitious, structurally breath-taking one that says something new about being human. If Sophie dies unexpectedly by the paws of a large mammal before getting a chance to create this game changer, she would like Werner Herzog to direct a gravely reverent film about her demise.
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It might not be a Renoir, in either of the two historic senses, but it is an elegant and enjoyable drama filled with beauty, passion and a near sublime gentleness of spirit.
The old age of the artist, exploring his relationship with a model and his son.
This is Ken Loach's most personal and generous gift, a gorgeous reminder that part of the cycle of progress is dreaming, which everyone can do – with or without centralised permission.
A documentary about the spirit of unity that developed in the UK during the Second World War and contributed to the formation of the Welfare State.
Dark Blood is an offbeat film no one would call formally perfect, yet the depths it gutsily goes for and its strange vein of comedy make it one to think about and enjoy
When a couple's car breaks down at an former nuclear test site they are rescued and imprisoned by a local hermit.
There’s no reassurance to be found in this cold world but Campos’s talent for getting mood whistling abominably through your ears is worthy of admiration.
A recent college graduate goes to Paris after breaking up with his girlfriend of five years. Once there, he falls in love with a young prostitute and their fateful journey begins.
The bottom falls out of sanity in a way that, despite being based on real events, feels deeply unsatisfactory.
A drama based on the real life case of fast food restaurant employees who abused vulnerable young people on the orders of a stranger on the phone who claimed to be investigating shoplifting.
