I was looking forward to Andrea Arnold’s Wuthering Heights because I loved her first film, Red Road and also quite liked her second, Fish Tank. But this latest one (based on Emily Brontë’s novel) just didn’t gel for me. There were large parts of it that I liked but overall the film just did not have the intensity required for the drama to pay off. ( Read more... )

This is somewhat embarrassing to admit, but of everything I saw this year at VIFF, from all over the world, my favourite film was American. And not even some indie production, but a film produced by a major Hollywood studio and coming soon to a theatre near you: Little ChildrenI’d heard the film was good, and I’ve been a big fan of Kate Winslet ( Read more... )

The first film I saw on Tuesday was Red Road, which was so rich and disturbing that I was thinking about it the rest of the day, while sitting through three other films. There are some secrets in the plot that I won’t give away, but there’s lots to comment on even at the start of the film ( Read more... )