Smoke and mirrors 9/10 Todd Haynes’ 2002 film ‘Far From Heaven‘ was a masterpiece of subtle subversion that paid homage to the richly coloured 1950s film style (and specifically the ‘women’s pictures’ of Douglas Sirk and his contemporaries). What could have been hollow pastiche is in fact a thoughtful and moving examination of US social [...]
Far From Heaven – Todd Haynes
May 19th, 2008 · No Comments · Film
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Ian McEwan – On Chesil Beach
August 28th, 2007 · No Comments · Fiction
No sex please, we’re British 7/10 Ian McEwan’s ‘On Chesil Beach‘ is conspicuous in its brevity. It has the air of a quickly written novella, an act of catharsis to exorcise some thematic threads between novels. Sadly one is left with a feeling that more could have been made of this scenario and the characters, [...]