Tag Archives: Andrew Haigh

All Of Us Strangers review — Love, death, and dreams

January 27, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Andrew Haigh | Written by Haigh, adapting a novel by Taichi Yamada | 105 min | ▲▲▲▲△ This is a story about loneliness and people haunted by the tragedies of the past, and seeing it within 24 hours of watching Memory it delivers a genuine wallop. It probably would anyway since it's one… Read More

Lean On Pete review — Potent equine drama wins by a length

April 26, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Andrew Haigh | Written by Haigh, based on the novel by Willy Vlautin | 121 min Charley (Charlie Plummer) is an impoverished but self-reliant teenager living with his restless father (Travis Fimmel, another in his catalogue of self-involved dads, following Ragnar in Vikings) in Oregon, having just moved into the State. Charley picks up… Read More

45 Years review — The chasm between the spoken and unspoken

February 11, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Andrew Haigh, written by Haigh adapting a short story by David Constantine | 95 min. | ▲▲▲▲△ We open long and wide on an English village. It holds for what feels like minutes, plenty of time to absorb details—the fields, the houses, a dog, running. It's the stillness that resonates. Stillness continues throughout this… Read More