Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Film round-up: October 13, 2022
Maria Duarte reviews of Emily, Rosaline, All Is Vanity, and Halloween Ends
Emily
ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
Peter Mitchell's photography reveals a poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
Emily (15)
Directed by Frances O'Connor
★★★
ACTOR turned director Frances O’Connor's debut feature is a haunting and visually arresting reimagining of the life of Emily Bronte, whose one and only novel Wuthering Heights is considered a literary classic.
Emma Mackay (Death on the Nile and Sex Education) is absolutely mesmerising as Emily who is full of contradictions — shy yet rebellious; quietly opinionated yet demure — who expressed her passions and yearnings through her poems and writings.
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