Vox Lux makes you feel really old, because this is the film where Natalie Portman plays a mother, even though she was only about 13 in Leon, released in Frances and the US in 1994, …
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Redoubtable – The DVDfever Cinema Review – aka Godard Mon Amour
Redoubtable tells a tale which I’d never come across before, showing the relationship in the late ’60s between French film director Jean-Luc Godard (Louis Garrel) and his muse, Anne Wiazemsky, from start to finish since, …
Continue readingThe Childhood of a Leader on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Childhood of a Leader is a bizarre film set in an alternate world where the Third Reich, as we know it, aren’t going to come to power one day, but they may as well …
Continue readingTale Of Tales on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Tale Of Tales is a film from Matteo Garrone, who co-wrote the screenplay, based on 17th century Italian poet Giambattista Basile‘s The Pentamerone, which translates as “The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones”), …
Continue readingHigh-Rise on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
High-Rise is classed as one of those ‘unfilmable novels’, although I don’t read books, probably having been put off early in life by being given Duncton Wood to read while I was in hospital. It …
Continue readingTale of Tales – Official Trailer #1 – Salma Hayek
Tale of Tales looks to be like a Grimm’s fairytale that goes just a bit further to be as less syrupy-sweet as possible, and so, for me, might actually be worth watching. It’s director Matteo …
Continue readingThe Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun Trailer #1
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun is a film I didn’t realise at first was originally made in 1970 with Samantha Eggar and Oliver Reed. This time round, Freya Mavor (right) …
Continue readingNymphomaniac Vol I. & Vol II. on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Nymphomaniac shows that Lars Von Trier doesn’t do things by halves, as his latest opus makes it to Blu-ray and DVD in a 2-part story totalling a shade over four hours. Vol.I begins with Joe …
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