first feature / good characters, good acting
Cast: Melanie Griffith, Don Johnson, Elijah Wood, Thora Birch, Sheila McCarthy, Eve Gordon
Written and Directed by Mary Agnes Donoghue
Photographed by Jerzy Zielinski
Edited by Eva Gardos
Music by David Newman
Boringly slow and uninspired despite the fancy editing and a very original story that deserves a much better treatment!
Cast: Rooney Mara, Casey Affleck, Kesha Rose Sebert
Director: David Lowery
Writer: David Lowery
Cinematographer: Andrew Droz Palermo
Editor: David Lowery
Composer: Daniel Hart
strong script and direction
A movie essentially focused on male characters, in which women play a subdued role.
An uncommon and powerful representation of how a father experiences the loss of his children somewhat compensates the gender unbalance of the movie.
Interestingly, the music is not intended to fit a particular scene but does include several ones, creating an overarching level of expression that transcends that of the scene itself. In some of the critical passages, the personages talk but the dialogue is not heard, being replaced by the music that links the scene to the previous one.
Cast: Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges, Gretchen Mol, C.J. Wilson
Director: Kenneth Lonergan
Writer: Kenneth Lonergan
Cinematographer: Jody Lee Lipes
Editor: Jennifer Lame
Composer: Lesley Barber
Variation on a theme already found in Shana Feste’s The Greatest: a family mourns their deceased son / love introduced by a new personage brings the mourning process to a conclusion
Some good moments in an otherwise syrupy and predictable movie
Cast: Alex Pettyfer, Gabriella Wilde, Bruce Greenwood, Joely Richardson, Rhys Wakefield, Robert Patrick, Dayo Okeniyi, Emma Rigby, Anna Enger
Director: Shana Feste
Writer: Shana Feste, Joshua Safran
Music by Christophe Beck
Cinematography by Andrew Dunn
Film Editing by Maryann Brandon
First feature
A sober and subtle directorial debut of a gendered approach to loss, with a somewhat out-of-the-blue ending
Cast: Olivia Wilde, Luke Wilson, Elisabeth Moss, Ty Simpkins, Kevin Corrigan, Giovanni Ribisi, Juno Temple, John Leguizamo, Merritt Wever
Director: Reed Morano
Screenplay: Chris Rossi
Director of Photography: Reed Morano
Editor: Madeleine Gavin
Composer: Adam Taylor Gordon
Working in duo: male and female directing
At times magic and a fantastic cast / The strength of the story gets a bit lost through the complex editing
Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Maria de Medeiros, Edouard Baer, Golshifteh Farahani, Isabella Rossellini
Directed by Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud
Written by Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud
Music by Olivier Bernet
Cinematography by Christophe Beaucarne
Film Editing by Stéphane Roche
This movie has a somewhat complex structure that lacks transparency.
Cast: Marie Denarnaud, Denis Ménochet, Clémentine Célarié
Director: Mélanie Laurent
Writers: Mélanie Laurent, Morgan Perez
Music: Jonathan Morali
Cinematography: Arnaud Potier
Editing: Guerric Catala
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
strong script and direction
A movie essentially focused on male characters, in which women play a subdued role.
An uncommon and powerful representation of how a father experiences the loss of his children somewhat compensates the gender unbalance of the movie.
Interestingly, the music is not intended to fit a particular scene but does include several ones, creating an overarching level of expression that transcends that of the scene itself. In some of the critical passages, the personages talk but the dialogue is not heard, being replaced by the music that links the scene to the previous one.
Cast: Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges, Gretchen Mol, C.J. Wilson
Director: Kenneth Lonergan
Writer: Kenneth Lonergan
Cinematographer: Jody Lee Lipes
Editor: Jennifer Lame
Composer: Lesley Barber