The many facets of truth!
Gender roles in Victorian Canada / Excellent female lead
Cast: Sarah Gadon, Edward Holcroft, Rebecca Liddiard, David Cronenberg, Anna Paquin
Director: Mary Harron
Script: Margaret Atwood, Sarah Polley
Cinematography: Brendan Steacy
Music: Jeff Danna, Mychael Danna
A whole community turns against a 14 year-old girl who accuses a boy of raping her.
Powerful, almost unbearable
Actors: Fatime Azemi, John Risto, Eva Melander
Director: Beata Gårdeler
Writers: Emma Broström (screenplay), Geir Hansteen Jorgensen (dramaturge)
Music by Lisa Holmqvist
Cinematography by Gösta Reiland
Film Editing by Linda Jildmalm
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
Bland music, story with little credibility, emotional manipulation. In the same genre, Carrie Pillby is much better.
Cast: Chris Evans, Mckenna Grace, Lindsay Duncan, Jenny Slate, Octavia Spencer
Director: Marc Webb
Writer: Tom Flynn
Cinematographer: Stuart Dryburgh
Editor: Bill Pankow
Composer: Rob Simonsen