Reviews

Musically, Manchevski has gained the services of Macedonian music group Anastasia, whose strains are a blend of that of the Byzantine past, Eastern Orthodox Church music and ethnic Macedonian rhythms. ...

For me personally, this was an introduction to Dees Rees and (a film I had not known about until now) Pariah, which was her debut feature (Dees Rees went on to be the first African-American women nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for her 2017 film Mudbound.) Another major bl... ...

She started to visualize how the characters in the film reflected her own life - and I think that's something that can come from the deconstruction and reinterpretation of many films once we get down to the bare essentials. ...

It's a funny thing - I usually head towards World Cinema for a refreshing break from big-budget blockbusters that offer little other than explosive and violent thrills, but sometimes a foreign director embraces the way it's done in Hollywood and I find myself feeling like I'm visiting Soel but eatin... ...

It's not a case of abject failure - the movie is fine - it's just that a film of this size and scope obviously aims at being the big Best Picture Oscar winner at the end of the year, and At Play in the Fields of the Lord ended up facing the ignominy of not recieving a single nomination. ...

You'd never guess Roary could be at the place he is at the end of the film when the movie starts - a funny counterpoint to one of the last lines of the movie, delivered by Anne - about people always staying who they are. ...

Phil M ux's cinematography and especially the work of special effects supervisor Derek Meddings (who would pass away shortly before the film was released) deserve praise, with the extensive amount of work done with miniatures proving that sometimes such work does more to trick the human eye than any... ...

The film feels very weighty and heavy - anybody who watches any mainstream drama or popular, contemporary films would find a great deal of contrast when comparing them to Rocco and His Brothers, where every scene feels like it could be analysed and talked about - these people are short on small talk... ...

Despite all of that, Leila's Brothers is a film that can really speak to all of us in what seems an uninhibited way, and once in tune with it's ebbs and flows I really connected to it's characters in a way that had me feeling I was a part of Leila's family. ...

I've read that writing about the film is considered the equivalent of "climbing Mount Everest" when it comes to film reviewing and composing movie literature - so that process looks a lot more arduous. ...