Sentiment and understatement meet in this wonderfully melancholy (finish-of-) everyday living drama, primarily based on Akira Kurosawa’s reduced-important 1952 gem, Ikiru. Elegantly directed by South African film-maker Oliver Hermanus (who helmed the 2019 adaptation of André Carl van der Merwe’s autobiographical Moffie) and boasting deeply impacting performances from nationwide treasure […]
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Tragedy and comedy are completely paired in this most recent jet-black featuring from Martin McDonagh, which, like the author-director’s former film A few Billboards Outside the house Ebbing, Missouri (2018), seems a solid contender for the Oscars’ greatest photo race. Reuniting the two stars of McDonagh’s 2008 debut function In […]
Pick of the week The Wonder In 1862, English nurse Lib (Florence Pugh) comes to rural Ireland to spend two weeks monitoring Anna (Kíla Lord Cassidy), an 11-year-old girl who hasn’t eaten for four months but remains fit and well. Anna claims she lives on “manna from heaven” but is […]