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 script hesitates between a few genres (horror, thriller) before opting for a bully-victim relationship that loses much of its dramatic content along the way. An identical indecision hovers over who is the main character of the movie: Simon (Jason Bateman)? Robyn (Rebecca Hall)? Gordo (Joel Edgerton)?
Cast: Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall, Joel Edgerton, David Denman, Beau Knapp, Allison Tolman, P. J. Byrne, Busy Philipps, Wendell Pierce, Katie Aselton
Director: Joel Edgerton
Writer: Joel Edgerton
Director of Photography: Eduard Grau
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
Good direction, weak script and message
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Nora von Waldstätten, Lars Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz, Ty Olwin
Director: Olivier Assayas
Writer: Olivier Assayas
Cinematographer: Yorick Le Saux
Editor: Marion Monnier
Cast: Alice Lowe, Jo Hartley, Kate Dickie, Gemma Whelan, Kayvan Novak, Tom Davis,
Director: Alice Lowe
Writer: Alice Lowe
Cinematographer: Ryan Eddleston
Editor: Matteo Bini
Composer: Pablo Clements, James Griffith, Toydrum
Cast: Samantha Robinson, Gian Keys, Laura Waddell, Jeffrey Vincent Parise, Jared Sanford
Director: Anna Biller
Writer: Anna Biller
Editor: Anna Biller
Director of Photography: David Mullen
Music: Anna Biller
strong images and silences punctuated by sparse dialogues
The total absence of explanation allows the viewer to create his/her own story, a magnificent present, but difficult to carry out. See mine below.
Beware: spoilers ahead!
My story. An island serves as a prison for a group of women. They are all the same age and do not grow old. Each woman has a boy to fulfill her maternal desires. The boys are all the same age, but are human, thus growing old. For that reason, they must be constantly medicated and operated to prevent them from reaching puberty. The nurse who takes care of the young Nicolas bonds with him and helps him to escape.
The sea – the magnificent images sharply contrast with the colorless and lifeless prison-island – represents the living world to which Nicolas belongs.
Cast: Max Brebant, Julie-Marie Parmentier, Roxane Duran, Mathieu Goldfeld, Nissim Renard
Director: Lucile Hadžihalilovic
Writers: Lucile Hadžihalilovic, Alante Kavaite
Cinematographer: Manuel Dacosse
Editor: Nassim Gordji Tehrani
Composer: Jesús Díaz