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Review by Jane Freebury It’s a tough ask, separating our response to the Philip Seymour Hoffman character in A Most Wanted Man from the knowledge that this classy…
Review by Jane Freebury To begin with, there’s a taste of Paris as we track down a boulevard, between rows of wintry trees. We turn off at a…
Review by Jane Freebury Movie evergreen Clint Eastwood has recently been showing us other sides to himself besides the swaggering cowboy in buckskins that made him famous. The…
Review by Jane Freebury It’s such a short, no-nonsense name for a complete eccentric and it belies the weirdness and whimsy of his story, but what other shorthand…
Review by Jane Freebury This solemn, spare and beautiful personal journey begins in a house of silence, a convent, where a young woman is preparing herself for the…
Review by Jane Freebury A portrait of the woman who inspired this film, the daughter of an English sea captain and a black woman held in slavery, was…
Review by Jane Freebury This could have gone wide as a more conventional life story of influential 20th century philosopher, Hannah Arendt, the first to write on the…
Review by Jane Freebury Exactly what possessed a young woman to decide she was going to trek with camels across Australia may be something we’ll never quite understand….
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…
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 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 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 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 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 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 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…