"It feels that we're given an opportunity to kind of fully immerse into Andrew's old life, and get to play these parts that he's written so beautifully for us." Searchlight Pictures has debuted an extensive behind-the-scenes promo video for All of Us Strangers, the new film by acclaimed British filmmaker Andrew Haigh. The film has already opened in theaters and can be seen nationwide now - check your local listings to find where it's playing near you. This romantic fantasy is the story of a screenwriter in London who, after an encounter with his neighbor, is pulled back to his own childhood home where he discovers that his late parents are somehow living and look the same age as the day that they died. This full making of featurette includes conversations with the entire cast: Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell and Claire Foy. Along with director Andrew Haigh and his crew,...
- 1/8/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
"A beautiful, disorienting dream." Searchlight Pictures has revealed an extra international trailer for All of Us Strangers, the latest feature from acclaimed British filmmaker Andrew Haigh. It's opening later this December after playing at numerous festivals worldwide, including at Telluride, Toronto, London, Tallinn Black Nights, Berlin's Around the World in 14 Films, & many more. The romantic fantasy film tells the story of a screenwriter who, after an encounter with his neighbor, is pulled back to his childhood home where he discovers that his late parents are somehow living and look the same age as the day that they died. Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal star, with Jamie Bell and Claire Foy. Critics have already praised this film as: "A rumination on grief and love, Haigh's poignant and understated ghost story is one of the best films of the year." Featuring a score by Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch, with plenty of classic Pet Shop Boys songs in the soundtrack.
- 12/6/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
"Look at you! You were just a boy... and now you're not." Searchlight Pictures has unveiled the first official trailer for All of Us Strangers, the latest feature from acclaimed British filmmaker Andrew Haigh. This initially premiered at the 2023 Telluride Film Festival already, and it's playing at NYFF and London next this fall, before a release in select theaters in December. Expect it to get rave reviews from many critics. The romantic fantasy film tells the story of a screenwriter who, after an encounter with his neighbor, is pulled back to his childhood home where he discovers that his late parents are somehow living and look the same age as the day they died. Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal star, with Jamie Bell and Claire Foy. Critics have already described it as: "A rumination on grief and love, Haigh's poignant and understated ghost story is one of the best films of the year.
- 9/21/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
A quasi-memory film with the out-of-body feel of a waking dream, All of Us Strangers is in some ways a companion piece to Andrew Haigh’s stunning 2011 breakthrough, Weekend. But it also feels like something new, strange and soul-stirring that the director has been working toward his entire career.
Adapting the 1987 novel Strangers, by Japanese author Taichi Yamada, Haigh has rendered the story acutely personal, making the protagonist a queer writer in his 40s and downplaying the ghost elements of his dead parents to move away from genre into more dramatic, psychological and profoundly emotional territory.
The Searchlight release, opening Dec. 22 after screenings at the Telluride and New York film festivals, is both specific to Haigh’s life and relatable enough to connect with anyone who has experienced the comforts and sorrows of both familial and romantic love.
For a generation of gay men, especially, its reflections on coming of age in the 1980s,...
Adapting the 1987 novel Strangers, by Japanese author Taichi Yamada, Haigh has rendered the story acutely personal, making the protagonist a queer writer in his 40s and downplaying the ghost elements of his dead parents to move away from genre into more dramatic, psychological and profoundly emotional territory.
The Searchlight release, opening Dec. 22 after screenings at the Telluride and New York film festivals, is both specific to Haigh’s life and relatable enough to connect with anyone who has experienced the comforts and sorrows of both familial and romantic love.
For a generation of gay men, especially, its reflections on coming of age in the 1980s,...
- 9/1/2023
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In the eyes of cinephiles, remaking any film from Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa would be sheer blasphemy. But when captivating actor Bill Nighy is at the center of the story, his angelic smile and splendid vocals do more than win you over.
The Sony Pictures Classics drama “Living” — about a civil servant who decides to seize life after receiving a terminal cancer diagnosis — debuted at Sundance and has since made stops at the Telluride, Venice and Toronto fests, building word-of-mouth buzz along the way. The common denominator of critical acclaim and joyful audience response is Nighy, whose submersion into the role of Mr. Williams, the tale’s central figure, delivers a compelling reminder to Hollywood that the 73-year-old thespian is long overdue for accolades.
Nighy’s work is studded with memorable roles, from Davy Jones in “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” to Ray Simms, lead singer of the...
The Sony Pictures Classics drama “Living” — about a civil servant who decides to seize life after receiving a terminal cancer diagnosis — debuted at Sundance and has since made stops at the Telluride, Venice and Toronto fests, building word-of-mouth buzz along the way. The common denominator of critical acclaim and joyful audience response is Nighy, whose submersion into the role of Mr. Williams, the tale’s central figure, delivers a compelling reminder to Hollywood that the 73-year-old thespian is long overdue for accolades.
Nighy’s work is studded with memorable roles, from Davy Jones in “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” to Ray Simms, lead singer of the...
- 12/22/2022
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
On December 23, 2022, “Living” makes a limited theatrical debut in the United States following its November 4 release in the UK. Adapted from the 1952 Japanese film “Ikiru” by Akira Kurosawa, Bill Nighy‘s praised performance headlines the film written Kazuo Ishiguro and directed by Oliver Hermanus.
See Bill Nighy: ‘Living’ will inspire you to live your best life [Exclusive Video Interview]
Nighy is receiving plenty of Oscar buzz for his turn as Williams, a humorless civil servant who decides to take time off work to experience life after receiving a grim diagnosis. He has already earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Film Drama Actor and a Critics Choice Film Awards bid for Best Actor. Now Nighy looks poised to receive his first Academy Award nomination — he ranks fourth in our current Oscar odds.
The overwhelmingly positive reviews for the film have earned it a near-perfect freshness rating of 94 on Rotten Tomatoes, with the consensus reading,...
See Bill Nighy: ‘Living’ will inspire you to live your best life [Exclusive Video Interview]
Nighy is receiving plenty of Oscar buzz for his turn as Williams, a humorless civil servant who decides to take time off work to experience life after receiving a grim diagnosis. He has already earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Film Drama Actor and a Critics Choice Film Awards bid for Best Actor. Now Nighy looks poised to receive his first Academy Award nomination — he ranks fourth in our current Oscar odds.
The overwhelmingly positive reviews for the film have earned it a near-perfect freshness rating of 94 on Rotten Tomatoes, with the consensus reading,...
- 12/22/2022
- by Vincent Mandile
- Gold Derby
“I’d say ‘Living’ is harder,” admits Bill Nighy when asked whether it’s more challenging to portray an emotionally repressed man, like his character in “Living,” as opposed to portraying someone who is carefree and uninhibited. For our recent webchat he adds, “the way that I do it, it’s quite physical because you have to hold yourself still and tight and you have to squeeze out the voice and you are forever uptight. That’s quite exhausting!” Watch our exclusive video interview above.
See Exclusive Video Interview: Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch (‘Living’ composer)
“Living” is directed by South African filmmaker Oliver Hermanus from a screenplay by acclaimed novelist Kazuo Ishiguro (“The Remains of the Day”). It was adapted from the 1952 Akira Kurosawa-directed “Ikiru,” which in turn was inspired by the 1886 Russian novella “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” by novelist Leo Tolstoy. Set in 1950s London, Nighy stars as Mr. Williams,...
See Exclusive Video Interview: Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch (‘Living’ composer)
“Living” is directed by South African filmmaker Oliver Hermanus from a screenplay by acclaimed novelist Kazuo Ishiguro (“The Remains of the Day”). It was adapted from the 1952 Akira Kurosawa-directed “Ikiru,” which in turn was inspired by the 1886 Russian novella “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” by novelist Leo Tolstoy. Set in 1950s London, Nighy stars as Mr. Williams,...
- 12/19/2022
- by Rob Licuria
- Gold Derby
Deadline’s Sound & Screen Film award-season event last week showcased the music and scores from nine buzzy awards-season movies, with composers and songwriters performing their work with the help of a 60-piece orchestra in front of an live audience at UCLA’s Royce Hall.
Click here to launch Deadline’s Sound & Screen Film streaming site.
The evening also featured panel conversations with composers Alexandre Desplat (Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio), Michael Abel (Nope), Benjamin Wallfisch (Thirteen Lives), Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch (Living), Pawel Mykietyn (Eo) and Ludwig Göransson (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever); songwriters Diane Warren (Tell It Like a Woman) and Robin Pecknold (Wildcat); and Ian Eisendrath, executive music producer of Spirited.
Related: Deadline’s Sound & Screen – Full Coverage
The studios that participated in Thursday’s event included Netflix, Universal Pictures, Amazon Studios, Samuel Goldwyn Films, Apple Original Films, Sideshow and Janus Films, Sony Pictures Classics and Walt Disney Studios.
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The evening also featured panel conversations with composers Alexandre Desplat (Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio), Michael Abel (Nope), Benjamin Wallfisch (Thirteen Lives), Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch (Living), Pawel Mykietyn (Eo) and Ludwig Göransson (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever); songwriters Diane Warren (Tell It Like a Woman) and Robin Pecknold (Wildcat); and Ian Eisendrath, executive music producer of Spirited.
Related: Deadline’s Sound & Screen – Full Coverage
The studios that participated in Thursday’s event included Netflix, Universal Pictures, Amazon Studios, Samuel Goldwyn Films, Apple Original Films, Sideshow and Janus Films, Sony Pictures Classics and Walt Disney Studios.
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- 11/14/2022
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline Film + TV
What are some of the ways that a good film score can elicit a certain emotional response in a film? What film scores did you most admire when you were starting out as a composer? These were some of the secrets revealed by four of today’s top film composers when they joined Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Experts” Q&a event with 2022/2023 awards contenders: Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch (“Living”), Mychael Danna (“Where the Crawdads Sing”), Danny Elfman (“White Noise”) and Hildur Guðnadóttir (“Women Talking”). Watch our fascinating full group roundtable panel above and click on each name above to view each nominee’s individual interview.
See dozens of interviews with 2022/2023 awards contenders
“The best way to elicit a feeling in the audience is to try to understand and feel that emotion yourself when you’re writing,” Levienaise-Farrouch says about the secret to evoking emotion through film music. “One of the...
See dozens of interviews with 2022/2023 awards contenders
“The best way to elicit a feeling in the audience is to try to understand and feel that emotion yourself when you’re writing,” Levienaise-Farrouch says about the secret to evoking emotion through film music. “One of the...
- 11/13/2022
- by Rob Licuria
- Gold Derby
“It is a beautiful journey, in a sense of meeting this point of bittersweetness and acceptance,” declares composer Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch about what her score for the British drama “Living” means to her on a personal level. For our recent webchat she adds, “doing this film helped me see things from his point of view because not only has he accepted the fact that he’s going to die, but he’s also found the value of his own life,” she explains. “I’m glad I got to kind of think about that, because it helped me write a better score.” We talked with Levienaise-Farrouch as part of Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Experts” Q&a event with 2022/2023 awards contenders. Watch our exclusive video interview above.
See dozens of interviews with 2022/2023 awards contenders
“Living” is directed by South African filmmaker Oliver Hermanus from a screenplay by acclaimed novelist Kazuo Ishiguro...
See dozens of interviews with 2022/2023 awards contenders
“Living” is directed by South African filmmaker Oliver Hermanus from a screenplay by acclaimed novelist Kazuo Ishiguro...
- 11/13/2022
- by Rob Licuria
- Gold Derby
A number of awards-contending composers and songwriters were on hand Saturday in Los Angeles for Deadline’s Sound & Screen event, which showcased the music propelling nine buzzy film awards-season titles.
Related: Deadline’s Sound & Screen: Full Coverage
The panelists, their pics and the distributors were Alexandre Desplat, Diane Warren, Fleet Foxes frontman Robin Pecknold, Pawel Mykietyn, Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch, Ian Eisendrath, Benjamin Wallfisch and Michael Abels (Nope, Universal Pictures). Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio singer Raewyn Davidson also was on hand.
Click through the gallery to see their panels and some performances.
Related: Deadline’s Sound & Screen: Full Coverage
The panelists, their pics and the distributors were Alexandre Desplat, Diane Warren, Fleet Foxes frontman Robin Pecknold, Pawel Mykietyn, Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch, Ian Eisendrath, Benjamin Wallfisch and Michael Abels (Nope, Universal Pictures). Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio singer Raewyn Davidson also was on hand.
Click through the gallery to see their panels and some performances.
- 11/12/2022
- by Robert Lang and Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Composing the score for the Oliver Hermanus-directed drama Living began with a very simple question: Is it really necessary to write only sad music for a story about a man facing his mortality?
For Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch, the answer was no.
“It took a while for me to kind of, maybe, go on the same type of journey with Mr. Williams, embracing the tenderness of the situation and try to find that balance from the fact you are reaching the end of life and there is a sadness to it,” the composer for the Sony Pictures Classics film said at Deadline’s Sound & Screen awards-season event. “But it’s also a celebration if you lived your life in the way that’s worth living.”
Related: Deadline’s Sound & Screen: Full Coverage
Based on the Akira Kurosawa film Ikiru, Living takes place in 1952 London, where veteran civil servant Williams (Bill Nighy...
For Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch, the answer was no.
“It took a while for me to kind of, maybe, go on the same type of journey with Mr. Williams, embracing the tenderness of the situation and try to find that balance from the fact you are reaching the end of life and there is a sadness to it,” the composer for the Sony Pictures Classics film said at Deadline’s Sound & Screen awards-season event. “But it’s also a celebration if you lived your life in the way that’s worth living.”
Related: Deadline’s Sound & Screen: Full Coverage
Based on the Akira Kurosawa film Ikiru, Living takes place in 1952 London, where veteran civil servant Williams (Bill Nighy...
- 11/11/2022
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
The latest edition of Deadline’s Sound & Screen is officially underway Thursday night in Los Angeles, showcasing genre-defying and moving original music from some of the film industry’s most respected talents who are making waves during awards season.
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The program taking place at UCLA’s Royce Hall features composers from the films Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Ludwig Göransson), Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (Alexandre Desplat), Nope (Michael Abels), Thirteen Lives (Benjamin Wallfisch), Eo (Pawel Mykietyn) and Living (Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch) discussing their work and performing their scores live with a 60-piece orchestra. It also features songwriters including 13-time Oscar nominee Diane Warren and Fleet Foxes...
Related Story Contenders Film: New York Streaming Site Launches Related Story 'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever' Leaps Out Of The Gate With 28M Thursday Previews Related Story 'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever' Kicks Off With 10M+ On Day One Overseas – International Box Office
The program taking place at UCLA’s Royce Hall features composers from the films Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Ludwig Göransson), Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (Alexandre Desplat), Nope (Michael Abels), Thirteen Lives (Benjamin Wallfisch), Eo (Pawel Mykietyn) and Living (Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch) discussing their work and performing their scores live with a 60-piece orchestra. It also features songwriters including 13-time Oscar nominee Diane Warren and Fleet Foxes...
- 11/11/2022
- by Diana Lodderhose
- Deadline Film + TV
Four top film composers will reveal secrets behind their projects when they join Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Experts” Q&a event with 2022/2023 awards contenders. They will participate in two video discussions to premiere on Wednesday, November 9, at 6:00 p.m. Pt; 9:00 p.m. Et. We’ll have a one-on-one with our senior editor Rob Licuria and a roundtable chat with all of the group together.
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This “Meet the Experts” panel welcomes the following Oscar contenders:
Living (Sony Pictures Classics)
Synopsis: An English-language adaptation of the script of “Ikiru” (1952), set in London in the 1950s.
Bio: Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch’s career has included “Tiger Orange,” “Only You,” “Rocks,” “The Forgotten Battle” and “Censor.”
Where the Crawdads Sing...
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This “Meet the Experts” panel welcomes the following Oscar contenders:
Living (Sony Pictures Classics)
Synopsis: An English-language adaptation of the script of “Ikiru” (1952), set in London in the 1950s.
Bio: Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch’s career has included “Tiger Orange,” “Only You,” “Rocks,” “The Forgotten Battle” and “Censor.”
Where the Crawdads Sing...
- 11/2/2022
- by Chris Beachum and Rob Licuria
- Gold Derby
The Best Actor race began to take shape this weekend, as Venice Film Festival audiences lavished a lengthy standing ovation on Brendan Fraser for his performance in “The Whale” while home viewers got to experience Austin Butler’s work as Elvis Presley in “Elvis” following its HBO Max debut. But at the Telluride Film Festival, another strong contender kicked off his awards run anew: Bill Nighy, who gives perhaps the best performance of his career in the forthcoming Sony Pictures Classics release “Living.”
In an introduction for the film on Sunday, Nighy called “Living” one of the most personal projects he’s ever done. Based on the Akira Kurosawa film “Ikiru” and adapted by acclaimed author Kazuo Ishiguro (“The Remains of the Day”), “Living” is set in 1950s London and focuses on a mid-level city worker named Mr. Williams (Nighy) whose life is changed after he’s diagnosed with a terminal illness.
In an introduction for the film on Sunday, Nighy called “Living” one of the most personal projects he’s ever done. Based on the Akira Kurosawa film “Ikiru” and adapted by acclaimed author Kazuo Ishiguro (“The Remains of the Day”), “Living” is set in 1950s London and focuses on a mid-level city worker named Mr. Williams (Nighy) whose life is changed after he’s diagnosed with a terminal illness.
- 9/5/2022
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
Let us then use this space to celebrate Bill Nighy. The Surrey-born performer made a name for himself in the National Theater in the ’80s & ’90s before exploding on the worldwide film stage in the early 2000s with scene-stealing turns in Love Actually, Underworld, and the Pirates of the Caribbean sequels. In the decades since he’s only widened his scope of performance and general recognition. Which makes Living, written by the great Kazuo Ishiguro and directed by Oliver Hermanus, a quite lovely inflection point for the lifelong thespian. It’s quite possible he’s never been better.
Working from Akira Kurosawa’s eternal Ikiru, all involved give themselves a steep hill to climb. The film concerns Mr. Williams (Nighy), a living (ahem) personification of clogged bureaucracy who is told he only has months to live. Regarded as boring and old-fashioned by all who surround him, Williams is forced to...
Working from Akira Kurosawa’s eternal Ikiru, all involved give themselves a steep hill to climb. The film concerns Mr. Williams (Nighy), a living (ahem) personification of clogged bureaucracy who is told he only has months to live. Regarded as boring and old-fashioned by all who surround him, Williams is forced to...
- 1/25/2022
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
In Akira Kurosawa’s 1982 autobiography (Something Like an Autobiography) his film Ikiru only gets a passing mention in a chapter dealing with the filming of his cinematic masterpiece, Rashomon. Ikiru, which roughly translates as “To Live”, is one of the director’s most loved masterpieces. Roger Ebert himself claimed that he loved the film so much that he would revisit it every five years; each time, becoming more and more empathetic to the plight of Ikiru’s male protagonist (originally played by Takashi Shimura). However, as good as this 1952 classic may be, it is also a film that is more beloved by extreme cinephiles and graduate level film professors than anyone else. After all, who wants to sit through a two hour plus tale dealing with existential musings on the nature of morality and human decency?
It seems that Hollywood would much rather sit through violent re-renderings of films like Yojimbo or Seven Samurai.
It seems that Hollywood would much rather sit through violent re-renderings of films like Yojimbo or Seven Samurai.
- 1/24/2022
- by Ty Cooper
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
I have always had a philosophy that if you are going to do a remake, remake a movie that didn’t work the first time like Howard the Duck, not a classic by a great filmmaker. Well, the latter is exactly what director Oliver Hermanus (Moffie) and Nobel Prize-winning screenwriter Kazuo Ishiguro have had the audacity to do in “reimagining” (the popular term for remakes today) iconic Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s highly praised 1952 drama Ikiru. And they haven’t even bothered to change the early ’50s era in which it takes place, only the location and language, moving from Japan to England. Despite my reservations I am happy to say Living, which has its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday, works very well and that is solely thanks to the loving care these filmmakers have put into...
- 1/21/2022
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Zita Hanrot and Sami Bouajila in Farid Bentoumi’s toxic Red Soil (Rouge)
During the 2021 UniFrance and Film at Lincoln Center’s Rendez-Vous with French Cinema there were two virtual live panels. How Music Makes the Film (with composers Jean-Benoît Dunckel of François Ozon’s Summer Of 85; Evgueni Galperine of Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh’s Gagarine; Nicolas Weil and Sylvain Ohrel of Charlène Favier’s Slalom; Aska Matsumiya (Aska) of Crystal Moselle’s Skate Kitchen, and Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch of Sarah Gavron’s Rocks).
Melvil Poupaud and Benjamin Voisin in François Ozon’s cool Summer Of 85 (Eté 85)
The Vive la Résistance panel had directors Farid Bentoumi on his Red Soil (Rouge); Reinaldo Marcus Green on Monsters And Men; Kitty Green on The Assistant, and Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh, moderated by Maddie Whittle.
At the César Awards on March 12, Filippo Meneghetti’s Oscar-shortlisted Two Of Us (Deux), starring...
During the 2021 UniFrance and Film at Lincoln Center’s Rendez-Vous with French Cinema there were two virtual live panels. How Music Makes the Film (with composers Jean-Benoît Dunckel of François Ozon’s Summer Of 85; Evgueni Galperine of Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh’s Gagarine; Nicolas Weil and Sylvain Ohrel of Charlène Favier’s Slalom; Aska Matsumiya (Aska) of Crystal Moselle’s Skate Kitchen, and Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch of Sarah Gavron’s Rocks).
Melvil Poupaud and Benjamin Voisin in François Ozon’s cool Summer Of 85 (Eté 85)
The Vive la Résistance panel had directors Farid Bentoumi on his Red Soil (Rouge); Reinaldo Marcus Green on Monsters And Men; Kitty Green on The Assistant, and Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh, moderated by Maddie Whittle.
At the César Awards on March 12, Filippo Meneghetti’s Oscar-shortlisted Two Of Us (Deux), starring...
- 3/14/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The premise of Prano Bailey-Bond’s Sundance Midnight selection opener is so strong that it’s little wonder the film can’t quite live up — or perhaps down — to it: In a Thatcher’s Britain riven by tabloid-fueled “video nasty” hysteria, a young woman working for the national censorship board is assessing a horror flick, when it triggers sudden flashbacks to a traumatic, amnesiac episode in her own life. Given the ongoing debates around censorship — and its trendier 2020s companion, “cancellation” — and the relationship between screen violence and its real-life counterpart, not to mention the grungy exploitation aesthetic of the no-budget films it references, “Censor” dangles the prospect of topical, ticklish provocation that will prove offensive to some sensibilities. And offense, in a time of pandemic numbness, is tantalizing in itself: at least you’re feeling something.
Initially, at least, “Censor” teases in that direction. The witty opening segues from snowy,...
Initially, at least, “Censor” teases in that direction. The witty opening segues from snowy,...
- 1/29/2021
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
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