“You’re an activist not a supplicant,†maintains Alessandro Nivola’s sleazy intellectual, Roland, to his idealistic teen daughter, Ginger (Elle Fanning, convincing), in Sally Potter’s disjointed but good-looking portrait of teenage hormones and family dysfunction in early 1960s London.
It’s bad enough that the lifts don’t work, but now an unknown sniper is picking off the occupants of a bleak tower block.
Liam Neeson slums it again as the tightly wound Bryan, a former CIA operative who ends up in another bone-crunching pickle.
Quvenzhané Wallis is astonishing as six-year-old Hushpuppy, who lives with her often absent father (“Daddy could have changed into a tree or a bug, there wasn’t no way to knowâ€) in the poverty-stricken “Bathtub†area on the Louisiana Bayou.
Charlie Kaufman and Woody Allen are clear influences for this tale of an uptight, blocked novelist (Paul Dano), who after having vivid dreams about his ideal woman, Ruby Sparks (Zoe Kazan), sees his fantasy creation become flesh in his opulent LA pad.
“That’s what I want. No pity,†explains François Cluzet’s quadriplegic, Paul, to his adviser about his “pitiless†carer, Driss (Omar Sy, very convincing), a Senegalese rough diamond from a La Haine-style estate in Paris.
Lena Dunham directs, produces, writes, stars and sheds her clothes quite a bit in these tangy adventures of four twentysomething New Yorkers: self-absorbed Hannah (Dunham), uptight Marnie (Allison Williams), promiscuous Jessa (Jemima Kirke) and goofy Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet, very funny).
A FORMER drug addict has made a DVD warning young people about the dangers of dabbling in alcohol and other illegal substances.
Like a melancholy remake of The Terminator , Looper stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a hitman whose targets have been sent back to him from the future … which is fine until he finds himself face to face with his older self (Bruce Willis).
Katharine Isabelle convinces as Mary, a budding surgeon who stumbles into body modification to make ends meet in this grisly horror from the Soska twins, aka the Twisted Sisters.