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Hamlet – first-look review | Little White Lies
There are shades of Succession in Aneil Karia’s Hamlet: a stylish, uneven adaptation that takes pleasure in entropy and extremity. Set at the estate of a wealthy…
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Maddie’s Secret – first-look review
A film about a bulimic with the surname “Ralph,” starring cis male writer-director John Early as the cis female title character,…
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Below The Clouds – first-look review
If one goes into Below the Clouds looking for the dramatic eruptions of similarly themed films such as Fire of Love and Dante’s Peak,…
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Silent Friend – first-look review
It’s a truism to point out that trees, plants, rivers and all flora and fauna contain as much lifeforce as any…
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Re-anticipating Megalopolis | Little White Lies
Some see cinema as a form of theatre, and others see it as a form of circus. The great American filmmaker Francis…
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100 Nights of Hero – first-look review
No one could accuse writer and director Julia Jackman of lack of ambition. Her second feature, shot with the visual…
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Girl – first-look review | Little White Lies
In teenage dramas the lesson of the classroom often sets the tone, so when Hsiao-Lee’s (Bai Xiao-Ying) teacher asks his…
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Remake – first-look review | Little White Lies
Elsewhere, McElwee films old friends who starred in his earlier films, such as Charleen Swansea, a poetry teacher and friend of…
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In the Hand of Dante – first-look review
In his narrative poem ‘The Divine Comedy’, accepted to have been written between 1308 and 1321 and widely considered to…
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Duse – first-look review | Little White Lies
Pietro Marcello follows his interwar fairytale, Scarlet, by returning to the same time period for a half-literal, half-imagined portrait of legendary…
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