Custody (15) | Close-Up Film Review
Apr17

Custody (15) | Close-Up Film Review

CUSTODY is a film which really beefs up the tension as it progresses so that by the end, the audience is siting forward hardly breathing, to watch what is going to happen. But this is no horror film, rather a domestic abuse tragedy that escalates.

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Western (12A) | Close-Up Film Review
Apr13

Western (12A) | Close-Up Film Review

With its warm-hearted hearted message but stoical and lugubrious style, this film works hard and well to reinvent the western (in contemporary, rural Bulgaria!). It’s a lovely mood piece, which reins in the inevitable showdown nicely too.

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Ghost Stories (15) | Close-Up Film Review
Apr05

Ghost Stories (15) | Close-Up Film Review

The title of the film tells you the genre immediately – or does it?   These are ghost stories certainly but ones which take you in an unexpected direction.

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Wonderstruck (PG) | Close-Up Film Review
Apr05

Wonderstruck (PG) | Close-Up Film Review

Based on a novel by children’s writer Brian Selznick, whose work was also the basis for Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo”, this is the story of two children from different time periods who both travel to New York on a personal quest.  

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Isle of Dogs (PG) | Close-Up Film Review
Mar30

Isle of Dogs (PG) | Close-Up Film Review

This second animation film from the versatile Wes Anderson, building on his experience when making “The Fantastic Mr Fox”, is much more ambitious.

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I Got Life aka Aurore (15) | Close-Up Film Review
Mar25

I Got Life aka Aurore (15) | Close-Up Film Review

Aurore (Agnès Jaoui) is now 50 and feeling her age.  She is separated from her husband (Philippe Rebbot). 

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