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Viva Vivarium! That ending and more…

21st August 2020 by Sarah Cartland

Very spoilery so if you don’t want to know your destiny, stop reading now and flee while you still can… (You can read my 4-star review here.) Vivarium is about the inescapability of the humdrum existence that is suburbia, and particularly about society selling us that dream and the isolation that results (Tom and Gemma… Viva Vivarium! That ending and more… Read More

Filed Under: Film Articles Tagged With: AAA, imogen poots, jesse eisenberg, london film festival, loran finnegan, psychological horror, suburbia, vivarium

INTERVIEW: closing in on Vivarium director Lorcan Finnegan

31st March 2020 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

Mortgages are so bizarre. It’s like even the words mort-gage, it’s like death gauge. Well, when are you going to die? Right. Okay. Oh, here’s some money. Lorcan Finnegan directed the gleefully terrifying Vivarium, a vivid (and scarily recognisable) vision of the inescapable horrors of family life and suburbia in a modern, capitalist society. Vivarium… INTERVIEW: closing in on Vivarium director Lorcan Finnegan Read More

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: AAA, horror, imogen poots, jesse eisenberg, london film festival, loran finnegan, scifi, suburbia, vivarium

Vivarium (London Film Festival 2019) 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

17th November 2019 by Sarah Cartland 6 Comments

A young couple looking for the perfect home find themselves trapped in a mysterious labyrinth-like neighborhood of identical houses. *** Read my interview with Vivarium director Lorcan Finnegan *** Everyone has their own line in the sand which they will not cross when it comes to settling down. Mine is those massive white canvasses with… Vivarium (London Film Festival 2019) Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews, London Film Festival, Support Indie Film Tagged With: baby, cuckoo, family, settling, suburbia

Suburbicon 2.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

5th December 2017 by Sarah Cartland 6 Comments

Like the name of Suburbicon itself, the 1950s housing development where this story is set, this is a film made up of two separate elements that just don’t fit together. The 1950s period details are fun: the opening credits’ living breathing Suburbicon sales brochure, and the bold-patterned office fixtures and fittings, more than the oft-used… Suburbicon Read More

Filed Under: Featured 3, Film Reviews Tagged With: 1950s, murder, racism, suburbia

Viva 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

23rd March 2017 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

The girls' attempts to screw the patriarchy meant men were finally happy to be feminists

“I turn you on. I turn everybody on!’ says Viva (Anna Biller) at a fancy dress orgy, as she tries to navigate her own sexual awakening in early 1970s LA, slowly realising that while the men she meets also love women’s sexual awakenings it’s not for the same reason. Buy / rent Viva (2007). Amazon UK:… Viva Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews, Support Indie Film Tagged With: 1970s, anna biller, barbi smith, bored housewives, bridget brno, chad england, free love, jared sanford, playboy, playboy magazine, rick smith, sex comedy, sexploitation, sexual awakening, suburbia, viva

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