by
Julien Faddoul
Serena *
Set in 1930s
North Carolina, a man’s timber empire is in jeopardy when it becomes clear that
his wife is as barren as the land he harvests.
Once again, Bier’s blockheaded use of metaphor
paralyzes her own drama here, as well as the miscasting of her two leads.
d – Susanne Bier
w – Christopher Kyle (Based on
the Book by Ron Rash)
ph – Morten
Søborg
pd – Richard
Bridgland
m – Johan
Söderqvist
ed – Pernille
Bech Christensen, Matthew Newman, Simon Webb
cos – Signe
Sejlund
p – Ben
Cosgrove, Mark Cuban, Paula Mae Schwartz, Steve Schwartz, Todd Wagner, Nick
Wechsler
Cast: Jennifer
Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, Rhys Ifans, Toby Jones, Sean Harris, Sam Reid, Blake
Ritson
Get on Up *
The story of
James Brown, the Godfather of Soul.
Fairly rudimentary biopic told in a haphazard
non-linear structure. It is made watchable by its magnetic lead performance.
d – Tate
Taylor
w – Jez
Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth, Steven Baigelman
ph – Stephen
Goldblatt
pd – Mark
Ricker
m – Thomas
Newman
ed – Michael
McCusker
cos – Sharen
Davis
p – Brian
Grazer, Erica Huggins, Mick Jagger, Victoria Pearman
Cast: Chadwick Boseman, Nelsan Ellis, Dan Aykroyd, Viola Davis, Lennie James, Fred
Melamed, Craig Robinson, Jill Scott, Octavia Spencer, Josh Hopkins, Brandon
Smith, Tika Sumpter
Why Don’t You Play in Hell? ***
A Yakuza boss
with a movie star daughter produces a film with an amateur director for her to
star in.
A magnificent, complex, bloody paean to the ecstasy of
movie-making with its director’s typical mix of the beautiful and the perverse.
Even though the film ends in a bloodbath, Sono’s uncanny ability to elucidate
humanity is what’s so affecting.
wd – Shion Sono
ph – Hideo
Yamamoto
pd – Hisao Inagaki
m – Shion
Sono
ed – Jun'ichi
Itô
p – Takuyuki
Matsuno, Tsuyoshi Suzuki
Cast: Jun
Kunimura, Fumi Nikaidô, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Hiroki Hasegawa, Gen Hoshino,
Hashimoto Tomochika, Itsuji Itao, Hiroyuki Onoue, Tak Sakaguchi, Tetsu
Watanabe, Tasuku Nagaoka
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