Under Southern Eyes – Page 140 – A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.

Heavenly Creatures: a rich and dark dramatisation of a real-life matricide

Peter Jackson, “Heavenly Creatures” (1994) Having made his reputation as purveyor of gory splatter horror

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Henri-Georges Clouzot, “Les Diaboliques” aka “The Devils” (1955) At first “Les Diaboliques” doesn’t seem anything

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Henri-Georges Clouzot, “Wages of Fear” (1953) On paper, this movie’s plot looks so simple, even

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Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, “Delicatessen” (1991) How to describe this droll French movie that

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Yasujiro Ozu, “Early Summer” (1951) Calm and serene with a thin plot, “Early Summer” looks

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Bruce Beresford, “The Fringe Dwellers” (1986) Based on the 1961 novel of the same name

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Todd Solondz, “Palindromes” (2004) A dark comedic fairy tale about a girl trapped in a

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Alfred Hitchcock, “North by Northwest” (1959) After the intense “Vertigo” which initially wasn’t a great

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Barbet Schroeder, “Inju, la bête dans l’ombre” (2008) Enjoyably silly movie about a literature academic

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David Fincher, “Se7en” (1995) “Se7en” is a well-made film with some excellent acting performances and

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