Film review: The Banshees of Inisherin starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson
Nov 09 2022- Movies
- Last Updated on 16 November 2022
- Madeleine
The Banshees of Inisherin starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson is a black comedy about a very badly managed falling out. When BFF (Best Friends Forever) becomes BFNM (No More), it is painful for all concerned.
It doesn’t help that the story takes place on the suffocating little fictional Irish isle of Inisherin where the only privacy is to be found by escaping to The Mainland – Ireland in this case. Great grey sea vistas are juxtaposed with dim-lit cottage interiors, to give a feeling of the beauty and harshness of life, where pulling together is the only option. Until Callum starts pushing back.
Baltic Film Festival review: Sisters by Linda Olte at Riverside Studios
Nov 03 2022- Movies
- Last Updated on 03 November 2022
- Madeleine
Isn’t London the richest place to be for culture? If you know where to look, you can find anything. Last weekend a stream of films from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were on the menu at the Baltic Film Festival at Riverside Studios. Next week, who knows what delights. London Mums‘ editor Monica Costa and I caught the final screening in this festival.
Film review: Mrs Harris Goes to Paris
Oct 16 2022- Movies
- Last Updated on 15 October 2022
- Madeleine
Mrs Harris Goes to Paris is a PG Comedy/Drama.
This is a Franco-British love-up, for all those die-hard Francophiles out there. The fashionistas will salivate over the sacred reenactment of a 1950s Dior fashion show, with genuine outfits including a version of the 1949 Bar Suit, which can now be seen at the V&A.
It’s also delightful. The culture clashes are delicate and charmingly resolved, the prickly Parisian is present, but outnumbered. Every character is nudged on to the next phase in their journey, even the mighty Christian Dior himself, who agrees to go off the peg and global at the insistence of our well-intentioned heroine, nicknamed ‘Madame Dior’ in Paris.
