There was a particular scene in “Mothering Sunday,” adapted from Graham Swift’s 2016 novel by screenwriter Alice Birch, that convinced director Eva Husson she had to do the film. It may have been the greatest challenge that the role posed.” Josh O’Connor and Odessa Young in the movie “Mothering Sunday.” “Mothering Sunday” is, in itself, nuanced. A lot of times …
Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. ‘Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood’ Writer-director Richard Linklater’s “Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood” is a winsome, nostalgia-tinged look back at a late-’60s suburban Texas childhood as well as a rambunctious, conspiracy-minded lark. But the larger point of this movie is that our …
“Mothering Sunday” is a prestige movie bathed in sunlight, fixated on the sensual but tinged with an unspoken darkness. Set on a gorgeous English day in 1924 — lived by a young woman with a secret and remembered by her years later as a writer in love — it’s an unhurried reverie that’s sometimes as wonderfully sustained as a fermata …
Memory is none of those things. And so does “Mothering Sunday,” Eva Husson’s affecting and visually pleasing — if languorous — meditation on love and loss, based on a woman’s memory of an impactful day that reverberates through her long life. But “Mothering Sunday,” based on the 2016 novella by Graham Swift and deftly adapted by Alice Birch, isn’t just …
Report: “As my mother would say, ‘Take your skinny, rusted Black butt to bed,’” Spike Lee spills the beans on how he prioritises sleep over constant socialising at Cannes Film Festival this year Sprawled out over two weeks, Cannes can be an awfully overwhelming film festival. “I knew coming in that I was going to have to see 24 films, …
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