Sight & Sound articles
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Dovlatov first look: a talented artist’s frustrations in Brezhnev’s Soviet Union
Milan Marić brings a commanding wit to his portrayal of writer Sergei Dovlatov in the new dense and formally rigorous film from Alexei German, Jr, writes Michael Pattison.
Thursday 22 February 2018 -
From the Magazine
Film of the week: Dark River drags a history of abuse into the present
Ruth Wilson plays a steely survivor of childhood trauma fighting for her inheritance in Clio Barnard’s rich psychological drama, writes Pamela Hutchinson.
Thursday 22 February 2018 -
Unsane first look: an experiment in paranoia
Steven Soderbergh emerges from his self-imposed retirement with an iPhone-shot psychological horror for the post-Weinstein age, starring Claire Foy as a woman driven to the brink by a stalker, writes Nick James.
Wednesday 21 February 2018 -
From the Magazine
The Touch: Ingmar Bergman’s most misunderstood masterwork?
It’s time to recognise Bergman’s little-seen English-language story of a doomed affair as a major entry in the director’s canon, writes Geoff Andrew.
Wednesday 21 February 2018 -
The Green Fog first look: Guy Maddin’s giddy San Francisco remake
The Manitoba maestro has conjured a surreal, sharp city symphony out of thousands of film clips and the spine of his beloved Vertigo, writes Geoff Andrew.
Wednesday 21 February 2018 -
Transit first look: Europe’s past is now in Christian Petzold’s purgatorial palimpsest
The German director’s follow-up to Phoenix shadows a runaway from the Third Reich in modern-day Marseille to conflate the continent’s moral failings past and present, says Giovanni Marchini Camia.
Tuesday 20 February 2018 -
Berlinale 2018 midway round-up: how do you follow Isle of Dogs?
Some duds in (and out of) the competition are par for the course at the Berlin Film Festival, but there have been surprises both deft and outré – and some excellent candidates for the acting prizes, writes Nick James.
Tuesday 20 February 2018 -
Eva review: Benoît Jacquot’s moral mystery layers pretence upon pretence
Isabelle Huppert’s prostitute beguiles Gaspard Ulliel’s gigolo-turned-literary imposter in a smart Francophone adaptation of James Hadley Chase’s novel of multiple dealings, says Geoff Andrew.
Monday 19 February 2018 -
The Happy Prince review: Rupert Everett’s dark Wilde
Veteran Oscar Wilde impersonator Rupert Everett returns to the fray as writer and director too with a fervent if blearily kaleidoscopic portrait of the artist as a spent force, writes Michael Leader.
Monday 19 February 2018 -
The Bookshop review: a muffled look at little England’s tactful tyrannies
A late-1950s Norfolk sea town sets its face against the winds of change ushered in by Emily Mortimer and Bill Nighy’s book lovers in Isabel Coixet’s too-snug adaptation of Penelope Fitzgerald’s novel, finds Michael Leader.
Monday 19 February 2018
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