Jul 2019
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2019 Film Reviews – 43: Happy End [dir. Michael Haneke; 2017]
You know you’re in Haneke Land when a film starts with a young girl using some anti-depressants to kill her pet hamster… and then decides to find out what effect an overdose would have on her mother. From that point onwards, it’s bleakness all the way. But I have a lot of time for the… Continue reading
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2019 Film Reviews – 42: Late Spring [dir. Yasujirô Ozu; 1949]
You watch a film like Late Spring – Ozu’s characteristically quiet, unforced account of the pressure placed on a young woman to get married and leave her stable existence with her father – and you’re struck by how distant the world it portrays appears to be. And then you realise that 1949 was seventy years… Continue reading
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2019 Film Reviews – 41: Apollo 11 [dir. Todd Douglas Miller; 2019]
What’s most extraordinary about Miller’s Apollo 11 documentary is that even though you know the beginning, middle and end of the story before you watch the film, even though Nasa’s moon-landing mission was relatively unproblematic and even though the proceedings aren’t character led, you are rooted to your seat and glued to your screen from… Continue reading
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2019 Film Reviews – 40: The Age Of Innocence [dir. Martin Scorsese; 1993]
![2019 Film Reviews – 40: The Age Of Innocence [dir. Martin Scorsese; 1993]](https://dariushalavi.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/be78a-dariushalavi_ageofinnocence_july19.jpg?w=266)
When you’ve watched a movie several times, you enter into a wonderful sort of relationship with it: its main beats and incidents become so familiar to you that you can almost push them into the background and focus on aspects you may not have considered before. In my most recent viewing of Martin Scorsese’s masterful… Continue reading
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2019 Film Reviews – 39: Inquiring Nuns [dir. Gordon Quinn & Jerry Temaner; 1968]
In late 1960s Chicago, directors Gordon Quinn and Jerry Temaner decided it might be interesting to give two young nuns a microphone and tell them to ask passersby outside a church a very simple question: “Are you happy?” The result is this documentary, which has just been reissued and is available in the UK through… Continue reading
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2019 Film Reviews – 38: Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse [dir. Bob Persichetti & Peter Ramsey; 2018]
![2019 Film Reviews – 38: Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse [dir. Bob Persichetti & Peter Ramsey; 2018]](https://dariushalavi.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/fc15f-dariushalavi_spiderverse_july19.jpg?w=270)
This alternative take on the Spider-man franchise – in which several Spider-heroes from parallel universes are brought together to battle the Kingpin – certainly offers a feast for the eyes. The Lichtenstein-inspired drawings – confidently using bold lines and textured dots – pop with life and vitality, propelling the action from one frame to another… Continue reading
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I am a writer and award-winning perfume critic currently living in the south of England and working on a novel. For my perfume-related writing, please visit Persolaise.com.
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