THE ANCHORAGE (0)
An extremely dull documentary-style film that follows an elderly woman who lives isolated on a remote Swedish island. Every morning, she walks to the sea where she (unfortunately for the viewer) bathes naked, goes shopping with her boat, catches fish and listens to the radio. Totally uninspiring and at times rather pretentious. An art house turd to avoid!
THE PORTUGUESE NUN (**)
I really loved Eugène Green’s previous feature LE PONT DES ARTS but found his new film rather disappointing. His baroque theatre simply doesn’t enchant this time. A half-baked ode to Manoel de Oliveira, filmed in Lissabon.
NOTHING PERSONAL (**)
Another writer-director from Holland who tries to make an art house hit and makes me yawn. A manipulating plot and inept character development although I must admit that the latter is probably due to the film reels being played in the wrong order. Still, I found this film artificial (I hated the intertitles) and rather implausible although the cameraman really succeeds in capturing the austere beauty of western Ireland on lens.
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