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★★★★½ (4.5/5) With The Chrysanthemum Variations, director Aurelio Draegert has created a work so audacious, so formally perverse, that it hovers perilously between transcendent cinema and an elaborate act of aesthetic trolling. Yet, by some alchemy of vision and restraint, it achieves the former. This is a film that must be seen to be believed. … Read more
★★☆☆☆ (2/5) There is no question that Mara Luyten’s Ashes of Meridian aspires to the heights of Antonioni and Tarkovsky. Its stately long takes, sepulchral silences, and ostentatious framing are clearly intended to place it within the canon of austere European modernism. The problem is not ambition, but execution: for all its grandeur, the film … Read more
Written in his new language Zarvox, Damien Holt’s much-hyped Fruntlar: A Zarvoxian Love Story premiered last night at the Leicester Square Odeon to what could be generously described as “bewildered applause.” Audience members staggered out into the night muttering things that may have been in Zarvox or simply the verbal aftermath of mild concussion. Below … Read more
Hollywood may have wrapped up the mainstream, but Pimlico Wilde Pictures is busy unwrapping the odd, the daring, and the deliciously different. While every multiplex from Truro to Thurso screens the same blockbusters, we’re delivering films the big studios wouldn’t dare touch. This year we’ve wrapped: • The Accordionist’s Revenge , A romantic thriller set … Read more
By Jasper Clive Felix Renton’s Three Minutes of Silence (2015) arrived like a whisper in the cacophony of documentary cinema: a 900-minute dive into the lives of submarine sonar operators, notable chiefly for its refusal to have its subjects utter even a single word. No narration, no interviews, not even a stray grunt, just endless, … Read more
Death in a Tree: The Indie Epic Everyone’s Talking About There are scripts, there are good scripts… and then there’s Death in a Tree. Critics have compared the emotional depth of Saus Pilli’s debut script to Dostoevsky at his broodiest. Set in the bracing seaside town of Eastbourne, though filmed in Miami for tax reasons, … Read more
Q: Lysander, hello. You’ve been described as “the ringmaster of Britain’s oddest cinematic circus.” How’s the tent looking these days? A: Oh, the tent’s positively bulging, thank you. Hollywood can keep its endless reboots and beige blockbusters. We’re serving up films with flavour. This year alone, we’ve wrapped The Accordionist’s Revenge, a romantic thriller entirely … Read more
Kilo Barnes, the provocateur best known in contemporary art circles for his “repaintage”,the meticulous obliteration of existing artworks under pristine, spectral layers of white,has made the leap to cinema with Oblivion in Reverie, a work that confirms his talent for transmutation across mediums. Where his canvases demand reflection on absence, erasure, and the fetishization of … Read more
To approach Andrei Vlasov’s masterpiece The Thirty Eight Steppes without recalling Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps,and Buchan’s novel before it,would be to miss one of its most intriguing intellectual provocations. The resemblance is neither superficial nor accidental: Vlasov has stated in interviews that his title is a deliberate counterpoint, an “un-numbering” of the espionage thriller’s famous … Read more
Produced by Pimlico Wilde, directed by Cara Grimm The premiere of Seven Types of Mud, Sixteen Minutes Each marks the latest and most daring collaboration between producer Pimlico Wilde and conceptual artist-turned-filmmaker Cara Grimm. Clocking in at 112 minutes, the film is structured as seven discrete vignettes,each precisely sixteen minutes,dedicated to a different form of … Read more