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Review by © Jane Freebury A picturesque French vineyard on rolling hills sets the scene for this taut family drama. It’s a glorious setting where you might expect…
Review by © Jane Freebury Thousands of little girls were auditioned for the lead role in Beasts before the filmmakers found their Hushpuppy in Ouvenzhané Wallis. Just six…
Review by Jane Freebury Here’s a twist. It’s generally the girl rather than the guy who’s running out of time to become a parent. Not this time round…
M, 150 minutes 5 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury It’s dusk on the Turkish steppe. A crime has been committed. The manacled perpetrator is part of the…
Review by © Jane Freebury This royal affair unfolds in the court of the king of Denmark in the late 18th century when revolutionary ideas were taking root…
Review by © Jane Freebury Having a tilt at adapting classic literature to film has its risks and may never satisfy folks who feel the results should perfectly…
Review by © Jane Freebury Any kid with a bike is a kid who understands what it’s like to feel free. The kid in this fine film, a…
Review by © Jane Freebury An eight hundred-kilometre hike with backpack across the top of Spain in the company of a fat Dutchman, a garrulous Irishman, a chain-smoking…
Review by © Jane Freebury The ‘in search of’ formula has worked well for British documentary maker Phil Grabsky. He has been on the trail of Beethoven and…
Review by © Jane Freebury The man behind the camera on this adaptation of Shakespeare is Barry Ackroyd, the cinematographer who lensed Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker and…
Review by © Jane Freebury Hard as it is for me to praise the controversial Lars von Trier, I have to admit that his latest film is unforgettable….
Review by Jane Freebury This is the story of a man grieving for his dead wife. It is intricately structured and edited, and gorgeous to look at but…
Review by © Jane Freebury Every time Woody Allen makes a film it shows that he really knows how to use his tools of trade, whether you like…
Review by Jane Freebury It is the season for thoroughbred horses, outlandish hats and a lot of money changing hands and just the right moment for veteran producer…
Review by © Jane Freebury It was an inspired decision by French authorities to allow eccentric German filmmaker Werner Herzog exclusive rights to make a documentary of the…
Review by Jane Freebury When the novel this film was adapted from was first published it sold like hot cakes. It was 1973, the year its author Patrick…
Review by © Jane Freebury While the studios compete for audiences, outdoing each other with bigger and noisier SFX extravaganzas, along comes a small film that really has…
Review by Jane Freebury Based on a tall tale with a bit of truth to it, this is a home-grown version of the story of the dog that…
Review by Jane Freebury ‘Mad bastard’, that familiar Aussie expression, describes the bloke who’s brave to the point of being mad. In this new film set in Indigenous…
Review by © Jane Freebury In the archival footage that opens The Round Up there’s the small but telling detail of two gendarmes giving the salute to Hitler…