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Tag Archives: Mélanie Laurent
DVD review | Beginners – Mourning Becomes McGregor: Ewan shines as a son grieving his gay dad
By turns playful and funny, tender and poignant, the comedy-drama Beginners is a surprisingly uplifting film about mourning. Inspired by writer-director Mike Mills’s own life, the story revolves around the relationship between Ewan McGregor’s commitment-shy graphic designer Oliver and his … Continue reading
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Tagged Beginners, Christopher Plummer, Ewan McGregor, Mélanie Laurent, Mike Mills
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Pete’s Peek | The Round Up and The Garden of the Finzi Contini are holocaust dramas that dare to open up old wounds
It may be 66 years since the end of the Second World War, but that black period in history still fascinates and intrigues storytellers, historians and film-makers, as it continues to offering glimpses into man’s humanity and inhumanity. The passing … Continue reading
Out on DVD | Inglourious Basterds
I’m still not fully won over by Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, but there’s no denying his darkly comic World War Two action movie’s brazen counter-factual cheek or its genre-hopping panache. The story that allows Tarantino to hop from genre to … Continue reading
The Best view | Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino’s WW2 revenge fantasy: it’s not only the spelling that’s juvenile
“Once upon a time in Nazi-occupied France…” So begins Quentin Tarantino’s much-hyped World War Two action movie, an ultra-violent fairy tale in which a band of scalp-hunting Jewish-American soldiers go on the rampage behind enemy lines… and, in an … Continue reading
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Tagged Apache, Brad Pitt, Cannes, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Bruhl, Diane Kruger, dirty dozen, Eli Roth, Ennio Morricone, enzo castellari, Ernst Lubitsch, Hitler, Inglourious Basterds, jackie brown, Jewish-Americans, Leni Riefenstahl, Mélanie Laurent, Michael Fassbender, Nazis, quentin tarantino, Sergio Leone, Sherlock Holmes, spaghetti western, Third Reich, World War Two
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