This is the review of The Third Murder, directed by Hirokazu Koreeda, and starring Masaharu Fukuyama, Kôji Yakusho, Shinnosuke Mitsushima, Mikako Ichikawa and Izumi Matsuoka. Written by Joshua Glenn for Pure Movies. Opening with a sudden and brutal act of violence, The Third Murder introduces its murderer with the same matter-of-factness with which he is viewed by the legal system. Walking along a river bed with a man we soon discover is his boss, Misumi suddenly snaps and clobbers his companion over the head. He continues to strike him once he’s down, before dousing him in gasoline and setting him alight. The fire illuminates Misumi’s face as he looks on with an implacable expression and wipes the blood from his cheek. From the off, the case is cut-and-dried. Misumi is guilty, there can be no doubt about that. He murdered a man. We saw it with our own eyes.
- 4/4/2018
- by Joshua Glenn
- Pure Movies
Joshua Glenn looks at the 25th Raindance Film Festival
Every year the Raindance Film Festival descends upon the West End to offer up the biggest selection of independent movies in the whole of the UK. As well as taking in a record number of submissions from over 120 countries across the globe, this year also marked the 25th anniversary of what is now a London institution. That’s a quarter of a century of championing the most inventive, unrestrained and inspiring works in world cinema, giving a platform to filmmakers and creatives who otherwise operate outside of the mainstream.
Part of this platform involves giving out awards to the cream of the crop.
Every year the Raindance Film Festival descends upon the West End to offer up the biggest selection of independent movies in the whole of the UK. As well as taking in a record number of submissions from over 120 countries across the globe, this year also marked the 25th anniversary of what is now a London institution. That’s a quarter of a century of championing the most inventive, unrestrained and inspiring works in world cinema, giving a platform to filmmakers and creatives who otherwise operate outside of the mainstream.
Part of this platform involves giving out awards to the cream of the crop.
- 10/3/2017
- by Joshua Glenn
- Pure Movies
This is the Pure Movies review of Raw, starring Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Nait Oufella, Laurent Lucas and Joana Preiss, directed by Julia Ducournau. Written by Joshua Glenn for Pure Movies. Whether it’s Carrie getting her first period and proceeding to hone her telekinetic powers in murderous ways, or Buffy having to work through her high-school woes and fend off the undead in one fell swoop, female coming-of-age tales often reach for thematic richness by tapping into the supernatural or macabre. This isn’t always a guarantee of success – for every Heathers there are five Twilights – but those that work make one thing implicitly clear: tone is essential. Get this wrong and the whole thing falls apart. Nail it, though, and the disparate elements congeal into a riveting, rambunctious, resonant whole. Raw, Julia Ducournau’s riotous addition to the canon, is well and truly within the latter camp.
- 4/27/2017
- by Joshua Glenn
- Pure Movies
This is the Pure Movies review of Elle, starring Isabelle Huppert, Michèle Leblanc, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny, Charles Berling and Virginie Efira, and directed by Paul Verhoeven. Written by Joshua Glenn. For all of his exploitative tendencies, Verhoeven is not interested in mounting some pseudo-feminist wish-fulfilment ‘fantasy’ a la I Spit on Your Grave. Instead, he takes one of society’s sickest and most disturbing problems and uses it to explore how we construct and consume ideas of femininity, sexuality and victimhood. His approach is typically brash and confrontational, but there’s a beating conscience beneath the bravado that is, ultimately, transcendental. Audacious, challenging and deceptively affirming, Elle is absolutely essential cinema.
- 2/26/2017
- by Joshua Glenn
- Pure Movies
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