Tilda Swinton
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Annette, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie and A Clockwork Orange – Screen Time September 2021
If September’s film viewing was bound together by an overarching theme, it was the idea of integrity. In Annette – Leos Carax’s memorably surreal musical – the main characters grappled with their attempts to remain true to their artistic lives – and their splintering selves – while singing their way through some deceptively banal songs.… Continue reading
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Film Review: We Need To Talk About Kevin [dir. Lynne Ramsay; 2011]
Not having read the Lionel Shriver novel on which this film is based, I went in with foreknowledge about nothing except – as is often the way – the story’s concluding revelation. Still, this didn’t detract from what turned out to be a moving, unsettling, deeply visceral cinematic experience. Tilda Swinton is consistently excellent as… Continue reading
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Film Review: I Am Love / Io Sono L’Amore [dir. Luca Guadagnino; 2009]
It features a scene in which an extra-marital affair is brought to light by a bowl of soup (no, I’m not kidding), but that’s about as original as things get in I Am Love, an over-wrought examination of the relationships between the various members of a wealthy Milanese family. The link between food and sensuality… Continue reading
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