“Observation changes the result” we find out in Carol Morley’s timely thriller Out Of Blue. It’s a theory in physics, but it’s also interesting because of what it says about art and its audience. This is, the opening titles state, “a Carol Morley film”. Though maybe it isn’t any more? That’s a side issue though,… Out Of Blue Read More
Roma 4.5 stars
Roma is a very beautiful and a very sad film, and it’s a sadness drenched in the stoicism of those who hold little sway over their own lives. Not frenetic (despite the family’s four children rushing everywhere and fighting all the time) and not languid, it’s a supremely evenly-paced and unromantic look back at director Alfonso… Roma Read More
The Florida Project 4 stars
The Florida Project (the name comes from the Disney corporation’s name for Disney World while it was in development) is a gorgeous and glorious, fun and funny child’s eye view of life in the shadow of the Magic Kingdom, its darker side never shirked from but presented as a simple matter of fact. 6 year… The Florida Project Read More
Una 3.5 stars
“What do you want?” asks Pete at the warehouse where he works, when a face from the past turns up. “To see you” replies Una (Rooney Mara), the now twentysomething woman he groomed and sexually abused when she was a child. Pete (Ben Mendelsohn) was Ray then, when they ran away together (technically abduction would… Una Read More