Articles by Roger Clarke
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By the Grace of God review: François Ozon confronts child abuse in the Catholic Church
This nimbly made story of three survivors bringing a predator to account is a rare film that understands the weight of both trauma and forgiveness, writes Roger Clarke.
Thursday, October 24, 2019
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Midsommar review: Ari Aster brews a tisane of terror
A summer festival in Sweden becomes a daylight nightmare for Florence Pugh and Jack Reynor in this hallucinogenic folk horror from the director of Hereditary, writes Roger Clarke.
Wednesday, July 3, 2019
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Film of the week: A Ghost Story explores the delirium of grief
Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara and a crisp white sheet haunt the screen in David Lowery’s beautifully crafted, risk-taking film about deadly loss and deep sadness, writes Roger Clarke.
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
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Film of the week: The Assassin
Hou Hsiao-Hsien casts the distant past as a plane of myth and fantasy in his wuxia-tinged take on the itinerant-warrior drama. It’s another of the Taiwanese master’s inimitably oblique, realist and ravishing wide-shot triumphs, says Roger Clarke.
Friday, January 22, 2016
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A shard of ice pierces a venerable marriage in Andrew Haigh’s masterly follow-up to Weekend, says Roger Clarke.
Thursday, August 27, 2015
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Film of the week: Love Is Strange
Ira Sachs gives the comedy of remarriage a modern-day refresh with this warm, wise story of a newly vagrant gay couple in New York, writes Roger Clarke.
Friday, February 13, 2015
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Film of the week: Venus in Fur
Mr and Mrs Polanski make carnival work of von Sacher-Masoch’s bag of kink, finds Roger Clarke.
Friday, May 30, 2014
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Paolo Sorrentino’s return to Italy is a stupendous great gulp of cinema, says Roger Clarke.
Monday, November 25, 2013
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Film of the week: Behind the Candelabra
Steven Soderbergh bows out from feature filmmaking with a captivating biopic of the barely closeted showbiz pianist Liberace and his gilded cage.
Monday, June 10, 2013
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A teenager steers her four younger siblings through a mortally surreal landscape in this eerie portrait of WWII-torn Germany, writes Roger Clarke.
Friday, February 22, 2013
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