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Sundance Film Festival

Alex Heeney / February 7, 2015

Best of Sundance NEXT 2015: Poekel’s bittersweet and quiet Christmas Again

Christmas, Again is a quiet, subtle film from writer-director Charles Poekel, about a lonely man, aptly named Noel (Kentucker Audley), who spends the week before Christmas selling and delivering Christmas trees.

Céline Sciamma, Girlhood

Alex Heeney / February 1, 2015

‘Cinema is the only art ever where you share somebody’s loneliness’ and other insights from Céline Sciamma

Céline Sciamma discusses her third film Girlhood: the genesis of the film, how cinema is the only art form in which you can share someone else’s loneliness, and how she created the remarkable Rihanna scene.

Brooklyn

Alex Heeney / January 30, 2015

Review: John Crowley’s moving, romantic Brooklyn

Colm Toíbin’s novel Brooklyn was in many ways a perfect book, a taut and heartwrenching story of a young Irish woman, Eilis, and her traumatic experience immigrating to America in the 1950s: the way it left her in limbo, no longer comfortable in Ireland and always an outsider in her new home. John Crowley’s screen adaptation, written by the incomparable Nick Hornby, is even more emotionally resonant — if not as poetically constructed as Toíbin’s prose — in part because it’s a more modern, feminist take on the story.

Ine Wilmann, Anne Sewitsky

Alex Heeney / January 30, 2015

Director Anne Sewitsky and actress Ine Wilmann on Homesick

Norwegian director Anne Sewitsky’s (Happy, Happy) wonderful new film, Homesick, screened at the Sundance Film Festival this week in the World Dramatic Competition. Starring Ine Marie Wilmann, who gives a terrific performance, the film follows a late 20-something children’s dance teacher, Charlotte, who, because she never received any real parental love, has become desperate, clingy, and […]

Alex Heeney / January 29, 2015

Sundance Review: Sewitsky’s touching and complex Homesick is among the festival’s best

Norwegian filmmaker Anne Sewitsky’s Homesick is moving, funny, and devastating — and one of the best films at Sundance 2015. Homesick is now streaming on Netflix UK

Glassland, Gerard Barrett

Alex Heeney / January 25, 2015

Glassland is a sensitive portrait of a boy becoming his parent’s parent

Gerard Barrett’s sensitive and subtle drama Glassland takes a haunting look at what happens when a child is forced to parent his parent: the pressures, the shame, the lies, the anger, and the constant stress of being responsible for someone for whom you shouldn’t be responsible. Although it’s a strong study of the effects on its characters — Jack Reynor (What Richard Did) and Toni Collette (About a Boy) give terrific performances — the plot is otherwise thin, the psychological insights somewhat lacking.

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