ArtHouse Reviews: Joe
Nicolas Cage is impressive as Joe, a bearded, tattooed, chain-smoking ex-con who works with his team of labourers in rural Mississippi. He’s hard drinking but also hard-working, wielding an axe and injecting poison to clear the woods of weaker trees. We know how tough he is when we see him skin a deer, tame […]
Arthouse Reviews: Keeping Rosy
Maxine Peake as Charlotte is fantastic in this low-budget indie psychological thriller. She’s introduced as a cold and calculating career woman, someone who can pay for her father’s funeral, without actually bothering to go to it. Her minimalist apartment in London’s docklands is devoid of any personality, soft edges or warmth – a hostile […]
ArtHouse Reviews: Finding Vivian Maier
This award winning documentary tries to unravel the truth about an extraordinary American woman who for five decades kept her unique gift for photography hidden from the world. Working as a nanny in New York and Chicago, Vivian Maier, with children in tow and her Rolleiflex camera around her neck, set out to take pictures […]
ArtHouse Reviews: The Golden Dream
La Jaula de Oro is Spanish for ‘the Gilded Cage’, a reference to the lives of illegal immigrants in the USA, unable to move around freely and forced to take the worst jobs. The film, translated as ‘The Golden Dream’, is the story of four Guatemalan teenagers who, together with hundreds of other real-life migrants, […]
