The biggest surprise in Greta Gerwig’s smart and spirited live-action blockbuster, Barbie, co-written with Noah Baumbach and starring Margot Robbie as “stereotypical” Barbie and Ryan Gosling as Ken in need of her 'female gaze,' is the cameo made by the multiple Oscar-winning costume designer (for Anthony Minghella’s The English Patient and George C Wolfe’s Ma Rainey's Black Bottom) and Baumbach favourite (While We're Young and White Noise), the always beautiful Ann Roth. Here, Jacqueline Durran does the outfits.
Our Heroine With 1,001 Faces, to borrow the title of Harvard professor Maria Tatar’s latest book - which itself engages with Joseph Campbell’s Hero With A Thousand Faces - is on a quest that leads her from Barbieland to the Real World and...
Our Heroine With 1,001 Faces, to borrow the title of Harvard professor Maria Tatar’s latest book - which itself engages with Joseph Campbell’s Hero With A Thousand Faces - is on a quest that leads her from Barbieland to the Real World and...
- 7/23/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Memories are filtered by opinion and worldview. How often is it allowed to wander into a new life? We all are accessing a sea of stories, as Salman Rushdie calls it, or are “dipping into the big cauldron of story,” as Maria Tatar said about the Brothers Grimm.
Julius, played by the marvelously versatile and uncanny Moritz von Treuenfels, works as a security guard in a museum. He gives tips to new hire Erik (Thomas Schubert) about the “horror” of having to stand by the video art installations, about tyranny and negotiation, and invites the newcomer from Lower Austria to join him and his friends, Jonas (Max Themak), Lizi (Ines Marie Westernströer), and Savo (Zejhun Demirov) on a sailing trip on his aristocratic family’s boat.
From the very start writer/director Jöns Jönsson has us pay attention to what is overheard. Be it a tour guide explaining a Mondrian.
Julius, played by the marvelously versatile and uncanny Moritz von Treuenfels, works as a security guard in a museum. He gives tips to new hire Erik (Thomas Schubert) about the “horror” of having to stand by the video art installations, about tyranny and negotiation, and invites the newcomer from Lower Austria to join him and his friends, Jonas (Max Themak), Lizi (Ines Marie Westernströer), and Savo (Zejhun Demirov) on a sailing trip on his aristocratic family’s boat.
From the very start writer/director Jöns Jönsson has us pay attention to what is overheard. Be it a tour guide explaining a Mondrian.
- 2/16/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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