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Directed by: Clint Bentley Starring: Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones, Clifton Collins Jr. Certificate: PG Rating: 9/10 Back in 2000, when Uncut secured Denis Johnson’s first interview in 15 years to promote Alison Maclean’s adaptation of Jesus’ Son, we hailed him as “the world’s greatest living writer”
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Directed by: Scott Cooper Starring: Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Strong, Odessa Young Rating: 7/10 “I’m just trynna find something real in all the noise,” mumbles Jeremy Allen White, all brooding, ursine intensity as Bruce Springsteen at the heart of Scott Cooper’s new biopic. “You find something real,
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Paul Thomas Anderson taps into the dream life of America
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Sam Riley gets his groove back in a languid mystery with Highsmithian pretensions
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Christy initially comes on like it’s going to be a gritty corrective to the larks of The Young Offenders but unfurls into something more complex, surprising and moving
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Kolb delivers a typically electrifying, enigmatic portrait of a mother fighting like a cornered animal to keep her family together
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The atrocity kink eventually extends to morbid cosplay, a little like Amélie meets The Nazis: A Warning from History, with Hitler’s bathtub in place of crème brûlée.
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In its focus on the spirit and the flesh, the film feels as timeless as Black Narcissus or Picnic at Hanging Rock.
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Any one of these stories would make for a rich and compelling drama in its own right.
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Fans who hoped that Aster had got all the indulgence out of his system with the splurge of Beau may be frustrated.
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It may sound gruelling, but you can’t take your eyes off Benesch - who surely now deserves some comfortable romantic costume drama - for a second.
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The insistence on a very multicultural 18th century saves the film from being one more blood soaked fanboy genre exercise