Tag: period drama

It is a truth universally acknowledged that adapting a famous novel into a film comes with some difficulties. There have ...

A microcosm of a decadent and brilliant age, now long gone, Bright Young Things is a gaudy, spangled delight. An ...

Jean Luc Godard once said “Film is truth, 24 frames per second.” Now, I don’t know what that means, but I do ...

Jean Luc Godard once said “Film is truth, 24 frames per second.” Now, I don’t know what that means, but I do ...

Incest has to provoke a reaction of some sort. Shock, disgust, desire, sadness; it really doesn’t matter. Just something. Marguerite ...

Carol is a film crackling with opportunity, rich in period setting, richer still in personal relationships built up, torn down ...

Most know Martin Scorsese for his work concerning violence or crime, often following gangsters, criminals or outcasts into compelling stories ...

Set in a beautiful British country manor house and focusing on one day, with the addition of some flashbacks, the ...

There Be Dragons is not the return of Roland Joffé. The name probably doesn’t mean anything to you. But this ...

As the opening film to this year’s Berlinale and one of the competition films, Farewell My Queen (Les Adieux a ...