Lars von Trier

In Review: Nymphomaniac Vol. I & II on DVD

by Mairéad Roche 7 May 2014

With a title such as Nymphomaniac, writer/director Lars von Trier’s latest film is clearly, some might say cynically, named to pique the interest. As with Tarantino’s Kill Bill Vol 1 & 2, von Trier’s Nymphomaniac Vol. I & II are to be taken as one extended piece of work broken up for convenience into two parts, […]

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Rendez-vous 2014: Review Roundup

by Mairéad Roche 1 May 2014

Rendez-vous with French Cinema 2014 has now come to an end but we shall leave you with this review summary from Mairéad, who has dutifully prepared reviews of Agnès B’s My Name is Hmmm; Violette (pictured), on the contribution to art and feminism of Violette Leduc and Simone de Beauvoir, ending with Alain Resnais’ last film, Life of Riley. […]

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Berlinale 2014: First Impressions of a Film Festival

by Christina Newland 20 February 2014

For seven days this February, I found myself in Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz, the architectural glass and steel heart of the 64th annual Berlinale. It’s a surprisingly subdued centre for a city as bohemian as Berlin and for a festival so concerned with giving a platform to the most provocative, inventive, and marginalised voices in cinema. […]

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