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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 ‘Who wouldn’t want to be a lobby boy at the Grand Budapest? It’s an institution.’ The answer that nails it for the new lobby…
Review by Jane Freebury A big screen treatment of the life of a key prophet of Judaism, Christianity and Islam is one helluva big undertaking, destined for controversy….
Review by Jane Freebury It’s some time into this remarkable film about a lived-in relationship that we actually find out what the couple who’ve been married for ever…
Review by Jane Freebury Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi has a gift for offering an apparently simple premise only to tease it apart, strand by strand, and reveal it…
Review by © Jane Freebury One of the best things about this mid-life romantic comedy from writer-director Nicole Holofcener is the way it’s told. There’s wry humour, insight…
Review by © Jane Freebury It can take an outsider to reveal what we cannot see for ourselves. So the news that German film director Oliver Hirschbiegel was…
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,…
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…