Tag Archives: Vicky Krieps

The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnon review — Pistols or blades at noon?

December 10, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Martin Bourboulon | Written by Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière, based on the story by Alexandre Dumas | 122 min | ▲▲▲△△ | VOD and Digital Here's a curious case of Canadian distribution — a French film that finds its way to cinemas after it's had distribution on VOD and digital.… Read More

The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan review — Pistols or blades at noon?

August 26, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Martin Bourboulon | Written by Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière, based on the story by Alexandre Dumas | 122 min | ▲▲▲△△ | For rent on VOD and Digital For French cinemas, this is a huge-budget adaptation of the beloved Dumas adventure story, and the first to be done in French… Read More

Bergman Island review — Summer sonata times two

October 13, 2021 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve | 112 min | Two screenings at Carbon Arc Cinema on Friday, October 15 As a FYI for new readers, I help program films at Carbon Arc Cinema in Halifax. The cinema offers tickets and screenings through their website and in person through fall and winter seasons (in non-pandemic… Read More

Beckett review — Greece-set thriller holds its own (until the end)

August 25, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Ferdinando Cito Filomarino | Written by Filomarino and Kevin A. Rice | 110 min | Netflix Alfred Hitchock really loved thrillers where an ordinary man stumbles into a dark, extraordinary plot where everything's out of his control. The format got a lot of play in the 1970s, too. Beckett is a real throwback… Read More

Old review — Shyamalan goes back to The Village

July 22, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by M. Night Shyamalan | Written by Shyamalan, based on the graphic novel Sandcastle by Pierre-Oscar Lévy and Frederick Peeters | 108 min | Netflix If you've seen the trailer, you know the premise: A group of people vacationing at an exclusive resort on a tropical island head to a remote beach for the… Read More

The Last Vermeer review — Post-WWII thriller improves as it goes

November 19, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Dan Friedkin | Written by John Orloff aka James McGee, Mark Fergus, and Hawk Ostby, based on The Man Who Made Vermeers by Jonathan Lopez | 117 min | In Cinemas Dan Friedkin is a Texas billionaire, owner of a chain of car dealerships, with a sideline as a film producer. In The Last… Read More

Phantom Thread review — An elegantly twisted romantic drama

January 21, 2018 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson | 130 min Having seen what is reportedly the final performance of Daniel Day-Lewis on screen, I can say with some confidence he goes out having maintained a standard to which few others can compare. He's earned three Academy Awards, his creative instruments have been honed through years… Read More