Emma Thompson, Anthony Hopkins, Helena Bonham Carter and Sam West star in Merchant Ivory’s take on the EM Forster novel, following two Edwardian families as their fates become entwined by love, class and inheritance. Even without knowing anything going in, you could tell this was based on a book: Forster’s source material provides some really rich dynamics for the film to sink into, different relationships given space to breathe and develop as all manner of seemingly unrelated characters come together.…
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Memories of Underdevelopment 1968
Middle class intellectual Sergio (Sergio Corrieri) navigates life in post revolutionary Cuba, along with his own personal relationships, in Tomás Gutiérrez Alea‘s drama based on the novel by Edmundo Desnoes.
It’s a snapshot of Cuba just after the revolution, Corrieri‘s uncertain main character our guide into an unsteady world on the cusp of changing around him. There’s definitely a Fellini influence here, exploring similar sorts of ideas: the POV of man insulated from the outside world and mired in neurosis,…
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No Down Payment 1957
Joanne Woodward, Jeffrey Hunter, Cameron Mitchell and Sheree North star in this drama from Martin Ritt set in a suburban cul-de-sac, following three seemingly normal couples as tensions and buried personal conflicts threaten each relationship.
Set during the post war boom of the mid 50s, the film captures a particular moment, a stable suburbia with a hollowness just underneath it all. In this stunted community, we quickly see that appearances can be deceiving: residents living just beyond their means, and…
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Mueda, Memory and Massacre 1980
Capturing the townspeople of Mueda’s annual recreation of an infamous massacre from 1960, Ruy Guerra’s film is one really interested in the process of storytelling itself: a local community allowed to explore and reenact their own past without those outside influences shaping the narrative for them, something that feels quite radical now, when even the most well meaning accounts still too often get filtered around a Western point of view.
Instead, Guerra redirects it; I suppose you could argue capturing…
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The Banshees of Inisherin 2022
Martin McDonagh returns in his fourth directorial outing with a project that pivots away from the crime-tinged stories of before to something much more low-key in feel, taking the focus to the characters and so letting their relationship dynamics move the story along by themselves.
Being second generation Irish (with parents that immigrated to the UK before he was born) this is the first time McDonagh has a film entirely place in his ancestral country, capturing the spirit of these…
