Adèle Haenel
Film Review: Deerskin
There are few, if any, filmmakers working anywhere in the world today who have the inventiveness or singularity of vision of Quentin Dupieux. In a career which spans two decades (so far) the Frenchman has made a number of unlikely gems. His breakthrough came with Rubber, a film about a serial-killing tyre. He has gone …
Film Review: 120 Beats Per Minute
Since being clinically observed for the first time in 1981, AIDS has been one of the most aggressive and stigmatised diseases to blight the world. Whilst now largely under control in the Developed World, it’s still terrorising poorer nations; including much of Africa. However, it cut through the homosexual community like a plague in the …
Blu-Ray Review: The Unknown Girl
Since the inception of cinema, film-makers have used the medium as a way of highlighting social issues and driving social consciousness. However, it’s in times of great change or crisis where this becomes more prevalent. We’re living in politically and socially turbulent times, and as the success of I, Daniel Blake goes to show there’s …