The key roles given to women do not redeem the awful script and mediocre direction / The original idea deserves a better treatment
Cast: Asa Butterfield, Britt Robertson, Carla Gugino, Gary Oldman
Director: Peter Chelsom
Writer: Allan Loeb
Writer (story): Stewart Schill, Richard Barton Lewis, Allan Loeb
Cinematographer: Barry Peterson
Editor: David Moritz
Composer: Andrew Lockington
Director: Ritesh Batra
Writers: Ritesh Batra (screenplay), Vasan Bala (hindi dialogue consultant)
Actors: Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur, Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Music: Max Richter
Cinematography: Michael Simmonds
Editing: John F. Lyons
Weak scenario and direction, wrong music (!)
Cast: Jim Broadbent, Harriet Walter, Michelle Dockery, Charlotte Rampling, Billy Howle
Director: Ritesh Batra
Writer (novel): Julian Barnes
Writer: Nick Payne
Cinematographer: Christopher Ross
Editor: John F. Lyons
Composer: Max Richter
Dying to love, loving to death
Interesting use of landscapes; different sorts of music are superimposed; the screen stays black for quite a while; dialogues are sometimes ‘de-synchronized’…
Director: Mark Penney
Writer: Mark Penney
Actors: Shaun Benson, Eliane Gagnon, Michel Perron
Cinematography: Robert Smith
Editing: Mark Penney
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Pilou Asbæk, Michael Pitt, Takeshi Kitano, Juliette Binoche
Director: Rupert Sanders
Based on the comic ‘The Ghost in the Shell’ by Masamune Shirow
Writer: Jamie Moss, William Wheeler
Cinematographer: Jess Hall
Editor: Billy Rich, Neil Smith
Composer: Lorne Balfe
The worst script I’ve seen in a long time!
Cast: Jessica Brown Findlay, Andrew Scott, Jeremy Irvine, Tom Wilkinson
Director: Simon Aboud
Writer: Simon Aboud
Cinematographer: Mike Eley
Editor: David Charap
Composer: Anne Nikitin
Strong direction, images and performance by MJ Croze, good use of music
Actors: Marie-Josée Croze, Jean-Nicolas Verreault, Stephanie Morgenstern
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Writer: Denis Villeneuve
Music: Pierre Desrochers
Cinematography: André Turpin
Editing: Richard Comeau
Excellent direction and music
Cast: Emma Booth, Ashleigh Cummings, Stephen Curry, Susie Porter, Damian de Montemas, Harrison Gilbertson, Fletcher Humphrys
Director: Ben Young
Screenplay: Ben Young
Editor: Merlin Eden
Director of Photography: Michael McDermot
The message is a bit simplistic, but the personages are appealing.
Cast: Jae-yeong Jeong, Min-hee Kim, Yeo-jeong Yoon
Director: Hong Sang-soo
Writer: Hong Sang-soo
Music: Yong-jin Jeong
Cinematography: Hong-yeol Park
Day to day survival in the world of politics
Actors: Olivier Gourmet, Michel Blanc, Zabou Breitman
Director: Pierre Schoeller
Writer: Pierre Schoeller
Music: Philippe Schoeller
Cinematography: Julien Hirsch
Editing: Laurence Briaud