The friendship here depicts something that our culture usually finds very difficult to imagine: an image of straight masculinity that is actually lovely.
- Associate Professor in Department of Film Studies, University of Southampton
This locked-room mystery offers a lifetime of stored resentments, jealousies and greed spill over into brutal hatred – a bit like a family Christmas then.
Não os molhe. Não os exponha à luz forte. Não os alimente depois da meia-noite. Regras simples que foram quebradas e transformaram bichinhos fofos em animais violentos, sádicos e destrutivos
Don’t get them wet. Don’t expose them to bright light. Don’t feed them past midnight.
Our cinema expert brings you the best (and a few of the worst) at this year’s film festival in the capital.
Leigh’s film examines the underlying anger and cynicism of the central character’s depression, but it may leave the viewer without resolution.
From animated darlings to big blockbusters and politically poignant independent flicks, the film festival had it all.
It’s a beautifully realised adaptation that’s just too nice to really scare.
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