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Based on the memoirs of Jon Ronson, Frank offers a biopic of the man, wannabe musician looking for inspiration, and its encounter with Frank, misunderstood musician wearing a papier-mâché head. Wandering around the sea-side, muttering lyrics of a song that will never be considered as good, Jon comes across SORONPRFBS, a band whose keyboard player […]
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Directed in 2010, it took Silent Sonata four years to hit the UK ground. The film is an amazing piece of story telling, fascinatingly quirky, which, far from being a niche Slovenian war drama, depicts universal characters in a timeless no man’s land. Silent Sonata starts in medias res. There is a house, in the house […]
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Couscous, released in 2007, offers a social reflection upon the economical situation in France and its implications on the working class.
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Virginie picks her top seven dinner party guests from the world of film.
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This is a watchable though rather forgettable insight into an influential man’s life, says Virginie Robe.
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Forget about the disastrous Twilight series and their so-called modern representation of vampires, Jim Jarmusch has just renewed (saved) the archetype of the immortal lovers. The film soberly opens with a red gothic font on a black background. She, in Morrocan Tanger, is lying in a bedroom covered with books from every language. He is […]
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Virginie Robe reviews the excellent romantic drama Blue is the Warmest Colour
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The story continues with a disturbing and disappointing second instalment.
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Lars von Trier has made a remarkable film that hints that the most extreme material is still to come.
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The fifth collaboration between Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street, cleverly offers what it promises, says Virginie Robe.
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Virginie Robe chooses Man on Wire as a documentary all cinema-lovers must ask for this Christmas.
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Set in a post-apocalyptical France, Delicatessen (1991) is Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Michel Caro’s very personal version of Sweeney Todd. Times are harsh and food is scarce. Louison, a retired clown, manages to get himself hired as a handy man by the landlord of an old building, who also is a butcher. Whilst the story does […]