All articles by Fionnuala Halligan – Page 3
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Reviews‘From Darkness To Light’: Venice Review
Startling documentary about Jerry Lewis’s failed attempt to direct a Holocaust film in Sweden in 1971
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Reviews‘Queer’: Venice Review
Daniel Craig cruises 1950s Mexico in Luca Guadagnino’s adaptation of the William S Burroughs novella
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Reviews‘One To One: John And Yoko’: Venice Review
Kevin Macdonald clips together a portrait of John Lennon and Yoko Ono as they take a dive into 1970s New York activism
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Reviews‘Maria’: Venice Review
Angelina Jolie hits the notes as opera legend Maria Callas in Pablo Larrain’s latest biopic
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Reviews’Riefenstahl’: Venice Review
Clear-eyed portrait of Third Reich German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl and her post-War attempts to rehabilitate her image
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CommentComment: five fall festival titles that will become awards contenders - and why
Identifying the awards-season contenders from the bewildering array of films at this time of year means learning the rules of the game.
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Reviews‘Acting’: Edinburgh Review
Documentarian Sophie Fiennes teams with theatre company Cheek By Jowl for this illuminating exploration of the acting process
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Reviews‘Mrs Robinson’: Galway Review
The life and accomplishments of Mary Robinson, the first female President of Ireland, are celebrated in this unctuous documentary
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Reviews‘Housewife Of The Year’: Galway Review
Doc reveals Ireland’s troubling gender politics through the country’s long-running ’Housewife Of The Year’ competition
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Reviews‘Amongst The Wolves’: Galway Review
Luke McQuillan anchors this debut Irish revenge drama as a war veteran struggling to survive on Dublin’s harsh fringes
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FeaturesStars of Tomorrow 2024: Richard Gadd (actor-writer-producer)
Gadd starred in and wrote Netflix’s ‘Baby Reindeer’.
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FeaturesScreen critics’ stand-out titles from Cannes 2024
Our critics round up the films that may have flown under the radar but generated a lot of praise.
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CommentComment: Sex and politics reign at newsworthy Cannes 2024
Critical consensus – if you can ever find it – indicates it was a good year, even if reviews were rarely rapturous.
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Reviews‘All We Imagine As Light’: Cannes Review
Payal Kapadia’s eloquent fiction debut follows three women attempting to find their place in modern Mumbai
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Reviews‘Motel Destino’: Cannes Review
A young hitman hides out in a Brazilian sex hotel in this steamy Competition title from Karim Ainouz
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Reviews‘The Shrouds’: Cannes Review
A grieving man invents a way to stay close to his dead wife in David Cronenberg’s lumbering Competition entry
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Reviews‘Caught By The Tides’: Cannes Review
China’s relentless march for progress inspires Jia Zhang-ke’s contemplative Competition entry
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Reviews‘Desert Of Namibia’: Cannes Review
A young Japanese woman struggles with her claustrophobic Tokyo life in this Directors’ Fortnight title
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Reviews‘Queens Of Drama’: Cannes Review
A pop star and a lesbian punk fall in and out of love in this hyper-stylised French debut
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Reviews‘Universal Language’: Cannes Review
Iranian culture is transposed onto Winnipeg in this conceptual Canadian comedy