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No man’s land: Céline Sciamma on Portrait of a Lady on Fire
In Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Céline Sciamma’s exquisite love story set in pre-Revolutionary France, the director presents a female-centred vision of equality, solidarity, romance and sex. Here she explains to Isabel Stevens why she was determined to up-end the clichés and assumptions of traditional cinema.
Tuesday 3 March 2020 -
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Downhill review: Will Ferrell pulls his punches in a damp snowslide remake
This American warm-over of Ruben Östlund’s icy fatherhood satire Force Majeure brings little to the table besides a withering Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, says Joshua Rothkopf.
Tuesday 3 March 2020 -
Onward review: Pixar’s fantasy quest uncovers brotherly love
Two mismatched suburban elf brothers seek to reconjure their late father in Dan Scanlon’s rollicking emotional adventure, finds Lou Thomas.
Saturday 29 February 2020 -
Portraits of young women on fire: Céline Sciamma on female art, identity and intimacy
What sparks fly when the female gaze grows intimate? Céline Sciamma talks us through her portraits of girlhood and womanhood, culminating in the the heat and light of her Portrait of a Lady on Fire, in this video essay by Leigh Singer.
Friday 28 February 2020 -
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Push review: a timely documentary on the human cost of luxury development
UN special rapporteur Leilani Farha travels the world to investigate the global state of housing in Fredrik Gertten’s solid if unspectacular documentary, writes Chris Hall.
Thursday 27 February 2020 -
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True History of the Kelly Gang review: a whirlwind of class and colonial discontent
George Mackay plays Australian folk hero Ned Kelly as a sinewy provocateur in Justin Kurzel’s spectacular but confounding adaptation of Peter Carey’s novel, writes Trevor Johnston.
Thursday 27 February 2020 -
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Dark Waters review: Mark Ruffalo takes up weary arms against a malicious multinational
There’s something deadly in the water in Todd Haynes’s bleak but subtly powerful David-versus-Goliath legal thriller, writes Adam Nayman.
Wednesday 26 February 2020 -
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire review: Céline Sciamma’s thrilling, erotic story of women in love
Noémie Merlant plays an artist hired to paint a woman, Adele Haenel, who refuses to be painted, in this chamberpiece of shapes, textures and female solidarity, writes Catherine Wheatley.
Wednesday 26 February 2020 -
‘The Million Dollar Baby’, who has died aged 101, was one of the first and surely the youngest of Hollywood’s celebrity minors, as nonchalant on screen as she was vulnerable on set. She was likely also the last living silent film star, remembers Pamela Hutchinson.
Tuesday 25 February 2020 -
Color Out of Space review: Nicolas Cage turns hysterical in this slow-burn psychedelic horror
Richard Stanley adapts H.P. Lovecraft to create a strange, offbeat vision of a family threatened by cosmic forces and gruesomely mutated flora and fauna, writes Kim Newman.
Tuesday 25 February 2020
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