Actors: Lola Kirke, Breeda Wool, Dale Soules
Director: Deb Shoval
Writers: Deb Shoval, Karolina Waclawiak
Music: Gingger Shankar
Cinematography: Gal Deren
Editing: Jeffrey Wolf
Tag Archives: children
“Hounds Of Love” (Ben Young, Australia 2016)
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
“Betrayal” (David Hugh Jones, UK 1983)
Inverted structure, great cast, excellent dialogues though a bit too talkative and theatrical
Cast: Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Patricia Hodge
Directed by David Jones
Screenplay by Harold Pinter
Edited by John Bloom
“Miracles From Heaven” (Patricia Riggen, USA 2016)
A tearjerker/feel good movie. It’s a pity its message is not more universal, its main ingredient, faith, being considered to be a monopoly of the church.
Cast: Jennifer Garner, Kylie Rogers, Martin Henderson, Brighton Sharbino, Courtney Fansler, Queen Latifah, Eugenio Derbez, Kelly Collins Lintz, John Carroll Lynch
Director: Patricia Riggen
Writer (book): Christy Beam
Writer: Randy Brown
Cinematographer: Checco Varese
Editor: Emma E. Hickox
Composer: Carlo Siliotto
“The Sweet Hereafter” (Atom Egoyan, Canada 1997)
Cast: Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Bruce Greenwood
Director: Atom Egoyan
Writer: Atom Egoyan Based On The Novel by Russell Banks
Music: Mychael Danna
Cinematography: Paul Sarossy
Editing: Susan Shipton
“The Girl With All The Gifts” (Colm McCarthy, UK 2016)
Good music score, some intelligent dialogues, original story but annoying mistakes in the script and no humor
Cast: Gemma Arterton, Paddy Considine, Glenn Close, Sennia Nanua, Anamaria Marinca, Fisayo Akinade, Anthony Welsh, Dominique Tipper, Eli Lane
Director: Colm McCarthy
Writer: Mike Carey
Cinematographer: Simon Dennis
Editor: Matthew Cannings
Composer: Cristobal Tapia de Veer
“Collateral Beauty” (David Frankel, USA 2016)
Good direction and dialogues, weak message, pretentious movie
Cast: Will Smith. Kate Winslet, Edward Norton, Michael Peña, Keira Knightley, Helen Mirren, Jacob Latimore, Naomie Harris
Director: David Frankel
Writer: Allan Loeb
Cinematographer: Maryse Alberti
Editor: Andrew Marcus
Composer: Theodore Shapiro
“Lion” (Garth Davis, USA 2016)
Cast: Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, Nicole Kidman, David Wenham, Pallavi Sharda
Director: Garth Davis;
Writer: Luke Davies, based on the novel by Saroo Brierley, Larry Buttrose
Cinematographer: Greig Fraser
Editor: Alexandre de Franceschi
“The Past” (Asghar Fahradi, France 2016)
strongest: script + personages + minorities
weakest: humor
The more you learn about the situation, the more complex it gets, the more distant and evasive truth becomes.
Cast: Bérénice Bejo, Tahar Rahim, Ali Mosaffa, Pauline Burlet
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Screenplay: Asghar Farhadi, Massoumeh Lahidji
“Things To Come” (Mia Hansen-Love, France 2016)
strongest: gender
weakest: humor
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, André Marcon, Edith Scob, Roman Kolinka, Sarah Le Picard
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
Writer: Mia Hansen-Løve
Cinematographer: Denis Lenoir
Editor: Marion Monnier