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The Night House: Review

31/10/2021

 
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A horror that borders the psychological and the paranormal, this film is about grief and how much we can ever know someone.

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Spring Blossom: Review

24/10/2021

 
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Suzanne Lindon wrote the script for Spring Blossom (2020) at just 15 years of age. At 19 she directed and starred in it. This French film is a short meditation on a very specific point in many people’s adolescence – an infatuation with an older person.

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The Woman in the Window: Review

17/10/2021

 
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Amy Adams brings out all her unhinged energy in this one-location psychological thriller with just a few holes.

​Child psychologist Dr. Anna Fox (Amy Adams) is an agoraphobic shut-in whiling away her days rattling around in her enormous brownstone home. Bottles of wine and pills are always on hand and weird lodger David (Wyatt Russell) lives in her basement. A new family moves in over the street , drawing her fascination. She spies on Alistair (Gary Oldman) and his not-quite-right son Ethan (Fred Hechinger).

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Comets: Review

10/10/2021

 
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This film-of-two-halves by Georgian director Tamar Shavgulidze is a rumination on the theme of reuniting and adrift souls coming back together.

​A teenage girl called Irina (Ekaterina Kalatozishvili) sits in a sun-drenched garden reading aloud to herself. “I sit nursing the rooted love I first planted as a sample…” She’s waiting for family members who never show up. But the person who does mysteriously arrive is another Irina (Nino Kasradze), the girl’s namesake.

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Our People Will Be Healed: Review

3/10/2021

 
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Canadian filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin has directed dozens of films, many of which document First Nations culture and history. Her 50th film “Our People Will Be Healed”(2017) focuses on one of Manitoba’s largest First Nations communities, Norway House, and how the people there are looking ahead towards healing and reclamation of culture through education.

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    Hi, I'm Caz. I live in Edinburgh and I watch a lot of films. My reviews focus mainly on women in film - female directors or how women are represented on screen.
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