Based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, set in a snow-laden Swedish suburb in the 1980s, Let The Right One In, is not your archetypal vampire story, but rather a touching parable within a social-realist milieu that reveals the lonely emotional truths of childhood.
Oskar, the central protagonist, is a twelve-year-old boy who finds himself [...]
Entries from May 2009
May 14, 2009
Let The Right One In; dir. Tomas Alfredson
May 14, 2009
Hunger; dir. Steve McQueen
On a literal level, Steve McQueen’s feature debut, Hunger, delineates the events surrounding the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike, led by Bobby Sands. It is also a meditation on the human body as political weapon, as well as an abstraction on what it means to die for a cause.
In spite of McQueen’s celebrated status as a [...]
May 14, 2009
The Class; dir. Laurant Cantet
The Class, set in a tough, ethnically diverse comprehensive school on the edge of Paris, follows a group of students and their teacher, whose interactions with one another are sometimes amicable and, at other times, combative. The Class is neither a documentary nor is it, strictly speaking, a docudrama. It is a drama which blurs [...]
