Helen first published by Little White Lies “It’s not so easy to go back, I think”. So says Maria (Maria Vishnjakova), a young Estonian who, since arriving in Britain, has seen in her isolation “a chance to start over again… to reinvent myself”. Accordingly she has changed her tastes, her language and even her name…
Inferno (L’enfer d’Henri-Georges Clouzot) first published by Film4 Synopsis: Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea’s film is all at once a partial reconstruction of Henri-George Clouzot’s unfinished masterpiece, and a documentary on its tragic unmaking. Review: It begins, as it ends, with a breakdown. In 2005, film restoration specialist Serge Bromberg happens to get stuck for two hours in…
Remainder first published by VODzilla.co Tom McCarthy’s 2005 novel Remainder concerns an unnamed man who has been left hospitalised and comatose after a freak head injury from “something falling from the sky”, and who, once he has awoken, must undergo the slow, repetitive business of physical rehabilitation, mental recuperation, and the gradual recovery of his fragmented,…
Don’t Look Now first published by Little White Lies “Nothing is what it seems,” says John Baxter (Donald Sutherland) to his wife Laura (Julie Christie) in the opening sequence to Don’t Look Now, in response to her revelation that a pond’s watery surface is in fact curved rather than flat. Moments later, as John examines a photographic…