Author: C.C. Ford

Anyone who has read Joyce Carol Oates’ remarkable novel Black Water which is narrated by the fictional version of Mary Jo Kopechne as she is drowning in the car driven by the drunk Ted Kennedy in summer 1969, need not see this film. The novelist’s ability to get inside the head of the young political

A Russian couple are deep in the horror of divorce when their son goes missing from their apartment. This is virtually the entire plot of Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Oscar-nominated film – its simplicity defying the intricacies of suspense which I would guess make this the most brutally suspenseful and beautiful film of the year. Behind a bathroom

Much has been made of Ruben Ostlund’s The Square as a satire of the contemporary art world, complete with extraordinary set pieces about avant-garde conceptual art. But Claes Bang’s charismatic performance as Christian, a suavely dressed, cool-cat curator in a showy, modern Stockholm museum, is so nuanced and compelling that what might have been a

In the near future, universities will no doubt be bombarded with Phd topics involving the Trump era, just as they were post 9/11 when life inspired a new narrative take on storytelling. Artists have always responded to social change and political upheaval in order to contribute to the conversation through their own medium or because they

The plethora of compulsive viewing television series which has become the crack of cinephiles, has acclimatised us to story-heavy narratives that specialise in cliff-hangers or surprise twists. But here is a captivating film that eschews the appetite for plot in favour of mood and character and the nuances of rites of passage. Like Noah Baumbach’s

Spoiler alert!  Isabelle Huppert plays Michele Leblanc, a well-to-do partner in a successful video game company, employing good looking amoral hipsters who are paid to produce video games in which damsels are sexually penetrated by the tentacles of mythological beasts. Her corporate lingua franca with her female business partner (played by Anne Consigny) is violent, corporate

Spoilers ahead! Pedro Almodovar’s newest film, Julieta, is thematically true Almodovar: a touching, emotionally highly calibrated story of a mother and daughter, history, chance and identity. But its origins come from the least likely Almodavarian source: three short stories by Alice Munro – from her 2004 collection Runaway: Chance, Soon and Silence. Munro is the