Quelle desastre! Alain Berliner’s documentary on Brigitte Bardot, which traces her turbulent childhood in a straitlaced Catholic family, to becoming the ultimate French sex siren, to animal rights activist living in La Madrague, St. Tropez in her dotage, is an utter hagiography. You’d think she walked on water. Rushing through her childhood , where weContinue reading “Film Review : Bardot”
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Film Review: Mad To Be Normal
This film, starring David Tennant as psychiatrist RD Laing, has a play-like quality, in that it’s pretty static and dialogue -driven, with a gloomy, cigarette stained sepia tone, and a consistently murky atmosphere. But whereas Ian Pattison’s play on the man, Divided, had plenty of light and shade, Mad To Be Normal feels pretty oneContinue reading “Film Review: Mad To Be Normal”
Hit The North 