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MEGALOPOLIS – Osvaldo Golijov
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
In February 1997 I went to see Jane Campion’s film The Portrait of a Lady at the cinema, and I hated the movie so much that I almost walked out of it. The only reason I didn’t was because I wanted to continue to experience Wojciech Kilar’s staggeringly beautiful score in context. I had not had that experience – of wanting to walk out of a film like that, but not actually doing so because of the music – again for more than 25 years, until I saw Megalopolis, which surely ranks among the worst films I have seen since the turn of the millennium. Read more…
YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH – Osvaldo Golijov
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
An unusual and highly personal drama from director Francis Ford Coppola, Youth Without Youth is based on the novella by Romanian author Mircea Eliade, and stars Tim Roth as 70-year-old linguist and philosopher Dominic Matei who, dismayed by the onset of World War 2 and unable to finish his life’s work, contemplates suicide. However, after Matei is struck by lightning, he wakes up to discover that he has miraculously made a full recovery, has been rejuvenated with the body of a 35-year-old man, and can store limitless amounts of information in his brain simply by passing his hand over a book… a phenomenon that quickly becomes famous within the scientific community, and which sends the Gestapo and Hitler’s top scientists in his direction. Read more…
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