Tag Archives: Sope Dirisu

Mothering Sunday review — Love and despair in post-war Britain

June 30, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Eva Husson | Written by Alice Birch, adapting a novel by Graham Swift | 110 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Amazon Prime An earlier version of this review appeared on Flaw In The Iris in September 2021 during the FIN: Atlantic International Film Festival Mothering Sunday is a lyrical, gorgeous, and deeply melancholy British… Read More

#FIN2021 Reviews — The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, Mothering Sunday

September 24, 2021 flawintheiris

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain | Directed by Will Sharpe | Written by Sharpe and Simon Stephenson | 111 min | Amazon Prime Not that we needed any further confirmation, but Benedict Cumberbatch is really good at portraying eccentric real-life period Brits, from Alan Turing to Thomas Edison to Greville Wynne. It's certainly not… Read More

His House review — Refuge no respite from ghosts

March 4, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Remi Weekes | Written by Weekes, Felicity Evans, and Toby Venables | 93 min | Netflix It's a horror, but initially, the horror comes from the way the English system treats a couple, Bol and Rial Majur (Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku), refugees who've escaped from South Sudan, made the dangerous journey across… Read More