Tag: Teorema
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Erotically Charged Rotterdam Title ‘Swimming Home’ Grew From Freudian Analysis, Director Reveals, First Clip Unveiled (Exclusive)
Award-winning artist Justin Anderson’s debut feature “Swimming Home” has its world premiere in competition at International Film Festival Rotterdam. Variety has secured access to the first clip from the film.The film, an adaptation of Deborah Levy’s 2012 Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel, centers on poet Joe (Christopher Abbott) and war photographer Isabel (Mackenzie Davis), whose…
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John Patrick Shanley’s ‘Wild Mountain Thyme’ Is a Guilty Pleasure
We all enjoy movies that, if we had to write a review, we’d pan. Mine range from ’60s musical “Bye Bye Birdie” to Richard Curtis’ “Love Actually,” which has become a family Christmas staple. (That scene between Laura Linney and Rodrigo Santoro? Awful.)During my ’80s stint at Film Comment Magazine, we published several directors’ guilty…