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| The Guardian - Culture: Film | | | | Love Around the World review – the happy-clappy global family of coupling up | | by Leslie Felperin Sep 27, 2022 | | Andela and Davor Rostuhar spent the first year of their marriage looking into relationships around the world for this sweet-natured documentary Directors Andela and Davor Rostuhar are a married couple from Croatia who, after he proposed during a visit to Antarctica, decided to spend the first year of their marriage travelling around the world interviewing other couples about love. They must have packed some serious kit in their luggage, including a high-definition drone or two, because the resulting documentary is very polished for what was presumably a mostly two-person operation, beautifully shot by Davor and seamlessly edited together. Apart from the pinprick-sharp drone shots, the film smoothly intercuts between interviews with all kinds of couples, the occasional single person, and a few three-person relationships, representing diversity on every possible axis. Effectively it’s a series of cinematic portraits, seemingly conducted in the interviewees’ homes: sometimes in a regular living room, sometimes a central Asian floor heaped with piles of blankets, and sometimes in the middle of a rainforest where an Indigenous pair discuss their domestic routines. There are two lesbian couples, one American and one in Iran; the latter adds a contemporary resonance given the current protests over women’s rights in that country. Some have kids, some don’t, and some have had to nurse children through long illnesses and watch them die, as is the case with a very lovable pair of older Americans. One woman recounts running away at the age of 12 so she wouldn’t have to enter into an arranged marriage with an older man with Aids; every angle is covered. Continue reading... | | | | | The Good Nurse: real-life medics cast in Eddie Redmayne film to add realism | | by Dalya Alberge Sep 27, 2022 | | Exclusive: Tobias Lindholm had sought to make the lead actors’ performances more ‘naturalistic’ An Oscar-nominated director has cast two dozen real-life medics in a film that stars Eddie Redmayne and is based on the true story of a nurse who murdered patients in his care. Tobias Lindholm said he recruited nurses, doctors and paramedics to make the performances of his lead actors, Redmayne and Jessica Chastain, all the more “naturalistic”. Continue reading... | | | | | Michael Walker obituary | | by Alexander Jacoby Sep 26, 2022 | | My friend Michael Walker, who has died aged 80, was a film critic who wrote with intelligence and analytical rigour for magazines such as Movie and CineAction, and in a number of remarkable books. He was born in Hull, East Yorkshire, to Annie (nee Rippon) and Peter Walker, both teachers, and attended Hymers college in the city. He developed his love of cinema while studying physics at University College, Oxford. Continue reading... | | | | | |
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