Tag: Flesh
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Khan’s Flesh review – a portrait of the quiet majesty of the mundane
Ordinary events are imbued with a poignancy in this documentary showing the fragile power of community and identity in a Belarusian villageCast in a subdued, beige-toned palette, the tableau-like compositions in Kristina Savutsina’s documentary portrait of a small Belarusian village echo the wry sensibility found in the work of Swedish director Roy Andersson. Like in…
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Feast on British Queer Zombie Series, ‘In the Flesh’
An iconic image of a zombie is the braiiins-eating, staggering husk of a body, the dirt of their burial plot smudged over them. But like vampires and werewolves, there are fresh ideas to explore with those reanimated corpses. Recently, The Last of Us presented a unique hour of post-doomsday television, showcasing an older gay couple…
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Fighting With My Family review – Stephen Merchant has all the right moves
The writer-director’s story of a British female wrestler striving to make it big in the Us winningly balances oddball humour with affection for the antics of the WWE“These are big movies,” insists Michael Lerner’s studio boss in the Coen brothers’ 1991 hit Barton Fink, “about big men – in tights, both physically and mentally!” He’s…