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Review by © Jane Freebury The vast emptiness of space is now lodged in our collective imagination as a pretty unsettling concept. Maybe even harder to accept than…
Review by © Jane Freebury The opening credits are unexceptional before we get down to business but it’s impossible not to feel excitement about seeing the work of…
Review by Jane Freebury It’s got such a biblical ring to it yet Mary Meets Mohammad is as 21st century as you can get. How else would it…
Review by © Jane Freebury In Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, the first two films of what has become an exquisite trilogy, time was of the essence. Money…
Review by © Jane Freebury Trekking through the Caucasus Mountains in Georgia with the one you love may not be everyone’s idea of a good time. Fine, though,…
Credits include Farewell, My Queen and Three Hearts French director Benoît Jacquot makes no secret of his interest in women, in a good way. At the French Film…
© Jane Freebury All you need to make a film, Jean-Luc Godard once said, is a gun and a girl. The French filmmaker, radical in practice while others…
Film review by © Jane Freebury Born in the same year as Jimi Hendrix, singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez turned 70 this year. The music careers of both men burned…
Review by © Jane Freebury Is it possible to get to know a woman in the biblical sense? That’s quite a question from a man whose encounter with…
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…
Review by Jane Freebury It’s dusk on the Turkish steppe. A crime has been committed. The manacled perpetrator is part of the search party looking for the body…
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…
Credits include Café de Flore; Wild; and Dallas Buyers Club Music has much to say in the work of Quebecois filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée. His music choices are front…