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We’ve been harsh on Kenneth Branagh and his self-mythologising, including his recent Belfast. On this episode, we want to be kind and look back to Branagh’s amazing Much Ado About Nothing.
The entire Seventh Row editorial team is here to talk about site favourite Joachim Trier’s new film, The Worst Person in the World.
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Joel Coen’s first solo film is an adaptation of Macbeth starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand. We wonder why and discuss what makes for a good Macbeth adaptation.
We’re celebrating the legacy of Aboriginal Australian actor David Gulpilil. Gulpilil died on November 29th 2021, at age 68, leaving behind him a career of rich performances, despite the many ways the industry underserved him for decades. On this episode, we particularly focus on Charlie’s Country, as a film that was so personal to Gulpilil, and which features probably his best performance.
We also survey Gulpilil’s legacy, both his vital contributions to film, and also how his troubling domestic abuse conviction complicates that legacy. We discuss the issues that arise when representation of marginalised groups is so slim that we start to view the few successful figures as heroes rather than flawed humans.
We contextualize Kenneth Branagh’s newest entry Belfast in his decades long self-mythologising project and discuss “the Branagh scale”
This episode focuses on site favourite Andrew Haigh’s newest project, The North Water, starring Jack O’Connell and Colin Farrell. We discuss how this on-the-surface unusual work fits into Haigh’s thematic interests.
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This episode features Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney, Executive Editor Orla Smith, Associate Editor Brett Pardy, and special guest Fiona Underhill. It also features an excerpt from Alex’s interview with Andrew Haigh.
Patrick Sumner (Jack O’Connell), an ex-army surgeon desperate for work signs aboard a whaling expedition. The expedition is not what it seems and it leads Patrick into a fight for survival in both the isolated North and the power brokers in Hull. The North Water co-stars Colin Farrell, Stephen Graham, Tom Courtenay, and Sam Spruell.
The five episodes of The North Water are available to stream on Prime and AMC in the US and BBC iPlayer in the UK.