This is a gentle movie, a disquieting mixture of stunning, eloquently filmed scenes; warm, appealing characters; and profound grief in a pervasive thread running through it all. The film opens with a snowy landscape, eventually focusing on a primitive thatched wall with a rectangular window that looks like a black hole. To some extent the cinematographer Yves […]
The life of Maud Lewis was extraordinarily ordinary, riddled with arthritis, spine deformities, the Nova Scotia woman had every reason to be unhappy. Yet, her life was filled with beauty, color and happiness. Irish director Aisling Walsh taps into everything that made Lewis a national sensation and brings an entirely new wave of interest to
Having somehow unintentionally evaded 29-year-old Xavier Dolan’s previous acclaimed four films (he is already an 8 time Cannes award winner, and twice nominated for The Palm d’Or); Nothing can prepare the viewer for his latest It’s Only the End of the World. One of the nine finalists in consideration for the Academy Awards Foreign Film,