27 October 2023. By Neptune Two completely opposite films this week – the first about basic decency and humanity, the other about the cold life of a contract killer. Take your pick – they are both from top directors. THE OLD OAK *** One always recognises a Ken Loach film. There are the ordinary people, […]
FILM: ANSELM **** a masterwork on the subject of creativity
20 October 2023. By Neptune ANSELM **** Fantastic white dresses with paraphernalia coming out of the shoulders instead of heads. Bicycles with wings, totems in fields, hundreds of books with flapping pages, oversized paintings resembling crumbling worlds. And haunting, soaring music to accompany these visuals in a truly necessary 3D to enhance the deeper experience. […]
FILM: LE PROCÈS GOLDMAN ****
6 October 2023. By Neptune LE PROCÈS GOLDMAN **** (vo French) This is one powerful showpiece on the judgement of a man who admits to various burglaries that he has committed but has now been given a retrial for the murder charges of two pharmacists, which he has all along vehemently denied. Based on a […]
FILM: DOGMAN *** riveting in its intensity
29 September 2023. By Neptune DOGMAN *** Luc Besson is back, and as always his work is straight from the heart. Mostly innovative and accomplished, as with “Le Grand Bleu”, “La Femme Nikita”, “Léon” or the sensational “Fifth Element”, sometimes over-the-top, as happens when your heart leads your head. Here he gives us a mesmerizing […]
FILM: The Book of Solutions
22 September 2023. By Neptune LE LIVRE DES SOLUTIONS (The Book of Solutions) *** (vo French What a wild, crazy, refreshing comedy about artistic creation! Michel Gondry, the Oscar-anointed French director of “The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”, has come back to his original language, and gives us quite a bit of his own […]
FILM: SUBTRACTION – a mysterious film reflecting a corner of modern Iran
15 September 2023. Neptune will be back in full force next week. In the meantime see last weeks review below: By Neptune SUBTRACTION ***1/2 (vo Farsi) A woman sees her husband getting on a bus in Tehran, though he has told her he is away on a business trip. She follows him to an apartment […]
FILM: GOLDA **** Israel’s female prime-minister
1 September 2023. By Neptune GOLDA **** The multi award-winning, indefatigable Helen Mirren is once again exceptional (and unrecognisable) in this film about Israel’s female prime-minister, Golda Meir. The ingenuity of this semi-biopic is that it concentrates mainly on the short but deadly 1973 Yom Kippur war when Israel was attacked on two fronts by […]
FILM: Anatomy of a Fall ***
25 August 2023. By Neptune ANATOMIE D’UNE CHUTE (Anatomy of a Fall) *** (vo French, English, German) Two writers, their son and their dog live in a remote chalet somewhere in France. One day, the wife, who is German, is being interviewed by a young journalist about her latest best-selling book. Her French husband, whom […]
FILM: OPPENHEIMER *** – a big film
21 July 2023. By Neptune OPPENHEIMER *** Christopher Nolan always makes grand films. Works such as “The Dark Knight”, “Inception” or “Memento”. They are often complex, intellectual films, whether blockbusters or historical ones, such as the riveting “Dunkirk”. And they make a lasting impression, staying deep in one’s memory. This time he has tackled another […]
FILM: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE – Dead Reckoning, Part One ***1/2
14 July 2023. By Neptune MISSION IMPOSSIBLE – Dead Reckoning, Part One ***1/2 If you’re looking for a film with fun and action, don’t look anywhere else – this is your summer hit – an exciting and classy blockbuster! From the gripping beginning, in a state-of-the-art Russian submarine, through the whole crazy ride of trying […]
