Showing posts with label Ruth Wilson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ruth Wilson. Show all posts

Thursday, 16 January 2020

Suite Française (2014)



During the early years of Nazi occupation of France in World War II, romance blooms between Lucile Angellier, a French villager, and Bruno von Falk, a German soldier.

Well-made period melodrama with a good cast is more successful depicting a French community under Nazi occupation than with its romance, but does so with some suspense.


Sunday, 22 December 2019

I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (2016)



A young nurse takes care of an elderly author who lives in a haunted house.

Slow-paced gothic drama fully relies on atmosphere and visual brilliance and at times creates David Lynch-like moments of surreal horror, but, in the end, it's just another ghost story.