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Search Results for: boys state

High-Rise

Alex Heeney / May 4, 2016

Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise is vacant

…to the basest state of savagery imaginable. The film’s closest equivalent is to show repeated establishing shots of the tall, isolated building, surrounded by nothing but a large parking lot…

The header image of this essay shows a still from Oslo, August 31st next to a still of characters from Louder Than Bombs, behind a streak of purple bearing the white text: "Oslo, August 31st at 10".

Alex Heeney / August 30, 2021

There is a world elsewhere: Exile in Joachim Trier’s Oslo, August 31st and Louder Than Bombs

…rest of the film takes place in Upstate New York, at Jonah’s family home where returns to help with his deceased mother’s retrospective. This is the only time we see…

Josh Fox, How to Let Go of the World

Alex Heeney / April 18, 2016

Josh Fox talks How to Let Go of the World (And Love All Things Climate Can’t Change)

…television and in movie theatres, that helps a lot. The film’s philosophy pertains to more than just climate change. I think it pertains to our state of political despair and…

James White, Josh Mond

Alex Heeney / March 16, 2016

Josh Mond on the aesthetic of James White and working with Christopher Abbott

…taut film, James copes with his mother’s deteriorating state, forcing him to come to terms with growing up and sorting out his life. The Seventh Row sat down with director…

24 Weeks

Elena Lazic / February 20, 2016

Anne Zohra Berrached on 24 Weeks at Berlinale

…experience. I wanted my actors to really get inside that situation and state of mind. Julia [Jentsch] was brave enough to do it, even though she’s a mother with a…

Lovers and the Despot

Noemi Berkowitz / February 16, 2016

The Lovers and the Despot lacks substance

…the family; the film’s treatment of the main characters feels distant. Furthermore, the film never paints a clear picture of the oppressiveness of the state at the time and how…

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