If you’ve seen The Intouchables (2011) or The Extraordinary (2020), you’ll know that co-directors Olivier Nakache and Eric Tolenado have a deft hand at giving us emotional, character-driven stories that also tackle important social issues.
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Yes I could have seen this one on streaming on my TV screen but I chose to treat myself to a cinema viewing. I’m a very big Yorgos Lanthimos fan, particularly his early Greek-based works and a little less so of his more recent Hollywood outings. Kinds of Kindness is a mostly successful amalgamation of them both.
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This is one of those films that it’s better to go into not really knowing much about it, which makes it really difficult to write a review about it. So if you are planning to watch this, perhaps stop now and come back to my review after you have seen it.
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I chose this Italian film festival film almost at random, based on the session time and the fact that it was black-and-white. It was absolutely delightful.
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Music is a powerful tool for resistance and Rich Peppiatt’s delightfully frenetic retelling of the birth of northern Irish hip-hop band Kneecap shows the power and the vulnerability of sticking it to the Man.
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Gotta love ACMI! You come down to Melbourne on a random weekend and find that all of the cinemas are playing various combinations of the same films and that you’ve seen most of them at the Melbourne Film Festival. ACMI, in contrast, is showing a 2004 classic Thai horror film Shutter. What a gem!
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This is a sweet and tender portrait of ageing through the eyes of a grandson who discovers there is more to family than inheritance.
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I feel enchanted by this unexpected emotional journey from the top of Alaska to the tip of Patagonia.
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This Spanish historical drama directed by Patricia Font was a recommendation by a dear friend and it was only one session a day so I’m sure it will disappear from cinemas soon.
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French-Algerian director Emma Benestan takes a fresh approach to some monster/revenge tropes to give us a dark fable of female power.
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