Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Probing into the mind of a child through the medium of cinema is a challenge at the best of times, but when you remove almost all peripheral elements and make the child the trained focal point, it becomes a filmmaking task of surely self-destructive proportions. Olivier Ringer’s On the Sly, a quaint, breezy tale about the unfettered imaginative capacity of one neglected young girl, is a little too cutesy but ultimately worth it for the strong central performance and calming tone.
Firmly steeped in a healthy air of ambiguity, we don’t know much about Cathy (the director’s daughter, Wynona Ringer) or her family. There are hints at a depressed mother, and both parents seem distant, leaving Cathy confused and trying to understand the complexities of adult life. Pondering her place in their lives and resolving that they are ignoring her, she decides to...
Probing into the mind of a child through the medium of cinema is a challenge at the best of times, but when you remove almost all peripheral elements and make the child the trained focal point, it becomes a filmmaking task of surely self-destructive proportions. Olivier Ringer’s On the Sly, a quaint, breezy tale about the unfettered imaginative capacity of one neglected young girl, is a little too cutesy but ultimately worth it for the strong central performance and calming tone.
Firmly steeped in a healthy air of ambiguity, we don’t know much about Cathy (the director’s daughter, Wynona Ringer) or her family. There are hints at a depressed mother, and both parents seem distant, leaving Cathy confused and trying to understand the complexities of adult life. Pondering her place in their lives and resolving that they are ignoring her, she decides to...
- 6/5/2012
- by Shaun Munro
- Obsessed with Film
The Angels' Share (15)
(Ken Loach, 2012, UK/Fra) Paul Brannigan, John Henshaw, Gary Maitland, Jasmin Riggins, Roger Allam, William Ruane. 101 mins
If anyone can cut it at Cannes, Ken can, and this recent surprise Jury Prize-winner sees Loach doing what he does so well: dignifying ordinary lives and chronicling social history as it happens. The tone is a little lighter this time, though, as we follow a violent young offender's potentially fruitful encounter with the whisky industry, thus bringing together the best and worst of Scotland.
Prometheus (15)
(Ridley Scott, 2012, Us) Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron. 124 mins
With all the zealous promotion and yet tight secrecy, this long-awaited Alien prequel couldn't live up to fans' expectations, could it? There's no way of telling at the time of writing, so let's just say it'll be a brilliant triumph, and a complete disaster.
The Turin Horse (15)
(Béla Tarr, 2011, Hun/Fra/Ger/Swi/Us) János Derszi,...
(Ken Loach, 2012, UK/Fra) Paul Brannigan, John Henshaw, Gary Maitland, Jasmin Riggins, Roger Allam, William Ruane. 101 mins
If anyone can cut it at Cannes, Ken can, and this recent surprise Jury Prize-winner sees Loach doing what he does so well: dignifying ordinary lives and chronicling social history as it happens. The tone is a little lighter this time, though, as we follow a violent young offender's potentially fruitful encounter with the whisky industry, thus bringing together the best and worst of Scotland.
Prometheus (15)
(Ridley Scott, 2012, Us) Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron. 124 mins
With all the zealous promotion and yet tight secrecy, this long-awaited Alien prequel couldn't live up to fans' expectations, could it? There's no way of telling at the time of writing, so let's just say it'll be a brilliant triumph, and a complete disaster.
The Turin Horse (15)
(Béla Tarr, 2011, Hun/Fra/Ger/Swi/Us) János Derszi,...
- 6/1/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
This Gallic Home Alone is an oddly charming curio
An oddly charming curio: an English dub of a live-action French film observed from its heroine's perspective. At the end of a weekend away, knee-high Cathy (Wynona Ringer, the director's daughter) runs off to the woods when her parents leave for home. What follows is like a Gallic Home Alone, sidelining parental panic in favour of telling asides on how the young register time and basic tasks differently. The editorial pleas to pay proper attention to the seeds one plants are heavily underlined, but Ringer has an endearing presence: her uncertain scrabbling yields something both more truthful and spontaneous than Moonrise Kingdom, this season's pre-eminent runaway success on the subject of how we all once approached the world.
Rating: 3/5
World cinemaDramaMike McCahill
guardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content...
An oddly charming curio: an English dub of a live-action French film observed from its heroine's perspective. At the end of a weekend away, knee-high Cathy (Wynona Ringer, the director's daughter) runs off to the woods when her parents leave for home. What follows is like a Gallic Home Alone, sidelining parental panic in favour of telling asides on how the young register time and basic tasks differently. The editorial pleas to pay proper attention to the seeds one plants are heavily underlined, but Ringer has an endearing presence: her uncertain scrabbling yields something both more truthful and spontaneous than Moonrise Kingdom, this season's pre-eminent runaway success on the subject of how we all once approached the world.
Rating: 3/5
World cinemaDramaMike McCahill
guardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content...
- 5/31/2012
- by Mike McCahill
- The Guardian - Film News
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