The Extraordinary Miss Flower had its Scottish première at Glasgow Film Festival 2025 A metronome ticks, and a woman – in fact the Icelandic singer Emilíana Torrini – says in close-up, directly into the camera, “It is time, and I’d like you to meet her.” Then we see another woman, the actress Caroline Catz, smoking…
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The Double (2013)
Review first published by Little White Lies A man slumbers on a train. This opening image from The Double might just be all that is strictly real in this uncanny, oneiric trip through an individual’s divided psyche – but that hardly means we should not follow Simon James (Jesse Eisenberg) all the way to the…

