Abuse of Weakness is currently showing at the Sydney Film Festival. You can grab your tickets here. Abuse of Weakness opens with pure, crisp white bed sheets, the movement of a body beneath them. the camera pans up on Isabelle Huppert as she is waking from her sleep. Her left arm reaches for her right, […]
June
11
Abuse of Weakeness – Catherine Breillat and the solitary female creative. (SFF Film Review)
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June
10
Joe – David Gordon Green goes heavy on the symbolism. (SFF Film Review)
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Joe is now showing at the Sydney Film Festival You can grab your tickets here. There is something quite off about this film. Is it the contrived attempts by David Gordon Green to enlist “locals” to include “authenticity” only to line by line direct them out of any sort of naturalism? Is the pointless acts […]
June
09
Brad Checked In – Paula Noble and the price of on-line love. (Theatre Review)
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Brad Checked In Old Fitzroy Theatre 3 – 21 June You can grab your tickets here Images used in this post are by Katy Green Loughrey I used to be a social media hound and then one day I turned it all off, and I’ve worn that moment of power like a badge of honour […]
June
09
Is the man who is tall happy – Michel Gondry animates Noam Chomsky. (SFF Film Review)
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Is The Man Who Is Tall Happy? is showing at the Sydney Film Festival You can grab your tickets here. Sycophantism seems to be at the base of Michel Gondry’s examination of Noam Chomsky, one of the most famous contemporary intellectuals of our current age in his film Is the Man who is Tall Happy? […]
June
08
Miss Violence – Alexander Avranas and the horror of family. (SFF Film Review)
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Miss Violence is currently showing at the Sydney Film Festival You can buy your tickets here You know when Leonard Cohen’s ‘Dance me to the end of Love’ is played at a young girls eleventh birthday party that it’s not a good sign. Miss Violence starts with a young girl at her own family party, […]
June
08
Touch – Christopher Houghton and the power of image. (SFF Film Review)
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Touch is now showing at the Sydney Film Festival You can grab your tickets here It is difficult to talk about Touch as a film because there is a terrific twist part way through that is genuinely difficult to see coming, so one is left sort of floundering in the first parts of the film, […]
June
07
The Possibilities are Endless – Edwyn Collins up from the deep. (SFF Film Review)
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The Possibilities are Endless is now showing at The Sydney Film Festival You cab grab your tickets here. As with his music, it is useless to expect something mainstream and inspirational in the documentary about Edwyn Collins’ journey from the depths of his immediate and shocking coma to the man back on stage today. This […]
June
06
Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them – New Theatre and the cry of the Left. (Theatre Review)
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Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them New Theatre, 3 June to 28 June 2014 You can grab tickets here. All the photos in this review are credited to Bob Seary. It is a helluva brave play that names Terri Schiavo as the perfect right-wing wife, but the barbs and the […]
June
06
Omar – Hany Abu-Assad and contemporary psychological warfare. (SFF Film Review)
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Omar is now showing at the Sydney Film Festival. You can grab your tickets here. “As long as you don’t talk, they can’t sentence you. But listen closely, if you do confess, they will break your will, make you dependent, and turn you into a collaborator, so watch it. Never become a collaborator. There’s no […]
June
05
The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq – Guillaume Nicloux and the joy of the human. (SFF Film Review)
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The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq is currently showing at the Sydney Film Festival. You can grab your tickets here. The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq is an odd film, difficult to categorise, very funny and very dark as it paints a picture of a very bleak vision of democracy, where kidnapping a celebrity and holding them […]
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