Tag: Emily Watson
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The Legend of Ochi: The Lantern Beneath the Alder
There’s a hush to The Legend of Ochi, not the silence of fear, but the quiet after something sacred has been touched. Isaiah Saxon’s direction threads the edges of folklore and fable, delivering a debut feature that breathes in myth and exhales childhood. Carpathia, rendered with murky moonlight and soil-thick air, gives us a story…
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Small Things Like These: A Hearth Against the Bitter Chill of Silence
In the wintry stillness of 1985, where unspoken truths burden frost clings to the earth and hearts, Small Things Like These emerges as a film of quiet defiance and deep humanity. Directed by Tim Mielants, the film features a hauntingly resonant performance by Cillian Murphy. It weaves a story that feels more like an excavation…
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“The Happy Prince”: Skips The Happy and Goes for the Gloom of Wilde
The Happy Prince is a fairy story about Oscar Wilde (Rupert Everett) in the last sad years of his life. Rupert Everett, both actor and director here, knows Oscar bait when he sees it, and the story of an exiled homosexual writer, bankrupt financially, emotionally and creatively, in the last miserable throws of succumbing to…