LEE Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Ellen Kuras Stars: Kate Winslet, Andy Samberg, Alexander Skarsgard, Andrea Riseborough, Marion Cotillard, Josh O'Connor, Noemie Merlant. Lee Miller was former model and glamourous icon who decided to pursue a career behind the camera and became a trailblazing photojournalist. In the 30s she became a photographer for British Vogue magazine. But when the war broke out in …
LA CHIMERA
LA CHIMERA Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Alice Rohrwacher Stars: Josh O'Connor, Carol Duarte, Isabella Rossellini, Alba Rohrwacher, Yile Vianello, Vincenzo Nemolata, Ramona Fiorini. Tuscany in the 1980s is the setting for this hybrid heist comedy come romance from Italian auteur Alice Rohrwacher (Happy As Lazzaro, etc). Arthur (played by Josh O’Connor, from tv series The Crown and …
CHALLENGERS
CHALLENGERS Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Luca Guaganigmo Stars: Zendaya, Mike Faist, Josh O'Connor. Italian filmmaker Luca Guaganigmo doesn’t repeat himself, but most of his films deal with connections. Whether it be the relationship between Elio and Oliver in the gay themed Call Me By Your Name, the various characters in the sundrenched setting of A Bigger Splash or even the teen cannibals on the …
MOTHERING SUNDAY
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Eva Husson Stars: Odessa Young, Colin Firth, Olivia Colman, Josh O'Connor, Emma D'Arcy, Glenda Jackson, Sope Dirisu, Patsy Ferran. This period drama about doomed love is sort of like an edgier variation on Upstairs Downstairs. The film is set mainly in the spring of 1924. The central character is Jane Fairchild (played by Australian actress Odessa Young), a …
GOD’S OWN COUNTRY
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Francis Lee Stars: Josh O'Connor, Alec Secarneau, Ian Hart, Gemma Jones. Wuthering Heights meets Brokeback Mountain? Johnny Saxby (played by Josh O'Connor, from tv series Peaky Blinders, etc) is a sullen, morose young man who works on his family farm. Since his father Martin (Ian Hart) suffered a debilitating stroke though he has had more …
