Film Review: The Snowman

Directed by Tomas Alfredson and based on the novel of the same name by Jo Nesbo, The Snowman follows Detective Harry Hole (Michael Fassbender) who is sent to investigate the disappearance of a woman whose scarf is found wrapped around an ominous-looking snowman.

New Trailer for TIFF15’s ‘Every Thing Will Be Fine’

(Written for Filmoria)

Set to make its North American premiere at TIFF 2015 in a few weeks time, the first trailer for Wim Wenders’ drama Every Thing Will Be Fine has been released this week.

The trailer and the plot synopsis for this are both pretty spoiler-filled since the events of the film are centred around quite a pivotal moment, so if you’d like to know as little as possible, then I’ll just tell you that the film will screen at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival this September, and it certainly looks worth the watch when it finally hits our cinema screens.

First Images of Charlotte Gainsbourg In Lars Von Trier’s ‘Nymphomaniac’ (NSFW)

(Written for Lost In The Multiplex)

The first two images for Lars Von Trier’s upcoming erotic drama Nymphomaniac, have been released this month, not giving a lot away but enough to make audiences curious.

Split into eight flashbacks, the film will tell the story of Joe (played by Von Trier regular Charlotte Gainsbourg), recounting her life and sexual exploits to bachelor Seligman (Stellan Skarsgard) as a self-diagnosed nymphomaniac from her youth through to age 50.

Christian Slater Joins ‘Nymphomaniac’

(Written for Lost In The Multiplex)

There has been many things said about Lars Von Trier’s upcoming and inevitably erotic drama, Nymphomaniac, over the past couple of months, the latest writing on the wall being that Christian Slater has joined the cast.

Slater, best known for his role in the thriller/romance True Romance, will be playing the role of the main character’s father, the lead being Von Trier regular Charlotte Gainsbourg as the film is split into eight flashbacks, recounting her life and sexual exploits as a self-diagnosed nymphomaniac from her youth through to age 50.

Film Review: Melancholia

(Read this in my publication In Retrospect – Issue 2)

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Melancholia is an apocalyptic drama revolved around two sisters, Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), during their final days before the end of the world. The planet Melancholia is heading towards Earth. Some think the planet will ‘fly-by’, whilst others worry that the planet will hit Earth, ending all of civilisation. The film is initially inspired by writer and director Lars von Trier’s personal experience with depression and is based on his insight that depressives remain calm in stressful situations. It is this relationship and contrast in the two sisters that the film focuses on.