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Reviews
Offret (1986)
Slow but satisfying.
Quite possibly my favourite film. Quite why I'm not always sure -- perhaps this is really a rather pretentious film ? Perhaps one in which a long time is spent without engaging the audience ? One with perhaps the most unlikely postman one might meet outside of a Bergman film set ? But, from the moment the camera opens lovingly on the icon, to the closing as the ambulance drives away, I find myself captivated, and drawn back to watch again. As with Tarkovsky's other films, certain images linger long in the memory:"little man" watering the ikebana, the levitating witch, the crashing milk jug, the roar of the jets. For those of us cursed with a lifetime of weekly wage slavery this is a fine restorative film for the spirit.
Withnail and I (1987)
the nature of englishness
English culture at its finest. By turns funny, ironic, savage and sad. As poignant as "Brideshead Revisted" for those alive at the time (I dare say). Richard E Grant gives an amazing performance considering he had only been drunk once before the film was made. Now available on DVD for those learning to repeat these lines verbatim.