Extremely active camera can sometimes be dizzying.
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Pena, Natalie Martinez, Annna Kendrick, Frank Grillo
Written and directed by David Ayer
Music by David Sardy
Cinematography by Roman Vasyanov
Film Editing by Dody Dorn
Cast: Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham-Carter, Anne-Marie Duff, Romola Garai, Ben Whishaw, Adam Michael Dodd, Brendan Gleeson, Samuel West, Geoff Bell, Meryl Streep
Director: Sarah Gavron
Writer: Abi Morgan
Director of Photography: Eduard Grau
Original Music Composer: Alexandre Desplat
Editor: Barney Pilling
SPOILER AHEAD: A culminating moment is when the main character discovers that he’s just a clone, and that everything he loves and knows has been implanted in his memory. Standing in a desolate lunar landscape, he looks at the earth, knowing that he has nowhere to go back to, that no one there is waiting for him.
Cast: Sam Rockwell as Sam Bell, Kevin Spacey as Voice of Gerty
Directed by Duncan Jones
Written by Nathan Parker
From a story by Duncan Jones
Music by Clint Mansell
Cinematography by Gary Shaw
Film Editing by Nicolas Gaster
The periods succeed each other without indication of a transition in time. The pace in the end becomes ever so slow and the rich but affected dialogues sound unnatural. However, the extraordinary poems of Emily Dickinson enlighten the movie.
Cast: Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Duncan Duff, Keith Carradine, Jodhi May
Director: Terence Davies
Writer: Terence Davies
Cinematographer: Florian Hoffmeister
Editor: Pia Di Ciaula
Good dialogues. The gospels are annoying.
Cast: Tashiana Washington, Ty Hickson, Meeko, Zoe Lescaze, Sam Soghor, Joshua Rivera
Written and directed by Adam Leon
Music: Nicholas Britell
Cinematography: Jonathan Miller
Editing: Morgan Faust
A 14-year old girl tries to deal with the conflict created by her nascent sexual desire and her faith. The significant others in her life are clearly divided into two groups. The non-believers are all male (father, grandpa, boyfriend) and all clearly express their desires. The believers on the other hand (the mother, the girl, and the priest) all have to repress their desires in order to comply with the dogma imposed by their religion.
Incongruous music
Actors: Clara Augarde, Lio, Michel Galabru
Director: Katell Quillévéré
Writers: Mariette Désert (collaboration), Katell Quillévéré
Music: Olivier Mellano
Cinematography: Tom Harari
Editing: Thomas Marchand
Excellent direction, good dialogues, images and humor
Cast: Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Eklund, John Osborne, Tony Beckley, George Sewell
Directed: Mike Hodges
From a screenplay by Mike Hodges
Photographed: Wolfgang Suschitzky
Music: Roy Budd
Excellent dialogues
Cast: Robert Donat, Cedric Hardwicke, Basil Radford
Director: Anthony Asquith
Writers: Terence Rattigan (play), Terence Rattigan (screenplay)
Music: William Alwyn
Cinematography: Freddie Young
Editing: Gerald Turney-Smith
Excellent dialogues / A remake of The Winslow Boy (1948)
Cast: Nigel Hawthorne, Jeremy Northam, Rebecca Pidgeon, Gemma Jones, Guy Edwards
Written and Directed by David Mamet
Based On The Play by Terence Rattigan
Music: Alaric Jans
Cinematography: Benoît Delhomme
Editing: Barbara Tulliver
Cast: Marina Hands, Louis Coullo’ch, Hippolyte Girardot, Helene Alexandridis, Helene Fillieres, Bernard Verley, Sava Lolov
Directed: Pascale Ferran
Written: Roger Bohbot, Pascale Ferran, Pierre Trividic; based on the novel by D.H. Lawrence
Music: Béatrice Thiriet
Cinematography: Julien Hirsch
Editing: Yann Dedet, Mathilde Muyard