Anna Sutton
The Pundit 2006 Reviews »
‘If you like magic mushrooms or LSD, you’re going to love my movie,’ says Director Kim Chapiron of film Sheitan.
This is a highly original horror film that depicts an ungovernable and surreal world of madness. In this world, people act out taboo urges with terrifying results. The oscillating sound and mostly handheld camera work create our sense of trembling mayhem’the LSD effect. As macabre horror unfolds, the possibility of fleshly delights is a hilarious play on the traditional teen horror flick and its hapless victims.
It’s Christmas Eve and three lustful …
The Pundit 2006 Reviews »
Gabrielle centres on a bourgeois married couple, Jean and Gabrielle Hervey. The story follows their lives through the superficialities of a society dinner party to the soulless void that is their love life. Adapted from the beautifully written short story, ‘The Return’ by Joseph Conrad, this weighty chamber piece draws us in to Jean and Gabrielle’s marital crisis while acting as a critique of class.
It soon becomes apparent that the characters’ privileged lifestyles veil yearnings borne of dispassion and sexual frustration. Following the revelation of an affair, the film quickly …
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Amy Berg, the writer, director and producer of Deliver Us From Evil, talks about her revealing interviews with Church officials and the perpetuation of abuse against children.
How did the idea for Deliver Us From Evil arise?
I had been a journalist for about seven years when I started working on stories about paedophilia within the Catholic Church for CNN. I met Father Oliver O’Grady, the paedophile priest, during this time and realised I had an incredible opportunity to document his story for a feature-length film. I didn’t really have a personal …
The Pun 2006 Reviews »
When Miss Behave first appears on stage, her voice is sharp as a whip crack as she races around frantically, bellowing: ‘Who’s got my wine’? She is an eccentric with a sense of humour as upfront as her generous cleavage. A dark horse and a diva, she’s at once all attitude and sass, but with a certain warmth that invites the audience to become her confidantes.
Rifling through an old suitcase, she ruminates on her years spent touring. Then, like a dazzling card trick, she turns the monologue inside out. Re-emerging …
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