Comedy, Reviews, Gail Tolley
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Holy Motors
28 May 2012
Hugely satisfying and inventive celebration of cinema from Leos Carax
Monsieur Oscar (Denis Lavant) is picked up by his driver Celine (Edith Scob) for a day’s work - 9 appointments that will take him across Paris and into the paths of an array of characters. If that sounds vague, it’s deliberate - to say anymore would…
Kaboom
23 May 2011
Cult director Gregg Araki returns to his B-movie roots with comedy-sci-fi-horror
(15) 86min Cult director Gregg Araki (The Living End, Mysterious Skin), one of the leading figures in the New Queer Cinema of the 90s, returns to the style of his earlier work for Kaboom, a gloriously trashy, insane ride of a film that wears its…
Xavier Dolan returns with Heartbeats
20 Apr 2011
The film marries humour with Nouvelle Vague cool, and stars Monia Chokri and Niels Schneider
(15) 100min Xavier Dolan caused a stir two years ago when his assured debut feature, I Killed My Mother, won a string of awards at Cannes. The young director from Montreal was only 20 years old. If that wasn’t impressive enough he returned to the…
You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger
10 Mar 2011
Woody Allen's London-set comedy lacks vitality
(12A) 98min Sally (Naomi Watts) is frustrated with her marriage to failed writer Roy (Josh Brolin) and is struggling to understand her mother Helena (Gemma Jones) who has turned to a fortune teller to guide her through her break up with husband Alfie…
