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...Haigh is wrongfooting us, but doing it so gracefully no one could object, in a film with traces of his second feature Weekend (2011) and shivery follow-up, 45 Years (2015), but a blue-grey mood all its own...
...“Falling Down” is whispery trip-hop with well-placed orchestral and jazz decorations, the former shivery, the latter warm....
...So it proves once more with Nanny, the shivery feature debut of director Nikyatu Jusu....
...Authority comes to rest with the children, that upside-down logic key to the film’s shivery, slow-burn appeal. Vogt is a canny visual storyteller....
...You might call what follows a horror movie, but that feels too blunt a term for a story whose shivery notes are just part of a deeply singular mood, a family drama of three strange, daredevil acts....
...Is the film a shivery gothic? Sci-fi? A fairytale? A little of each and entirely itself, a brief masterpiece of parents and childhood, past and future. With 72 minutes up, roll credits....
...My inbox chimes with the arrival of newsletters from a few favourite authors, and this grey and shivery day is instantly brightened....
...Only now does her shivery torch song actually get to accompany the opening titles. Nineteen months is a long time for a martini to sit unserved....
...She is a pale young woman, Ruth (Molly Windsor), the film taking shape around her a horror movie — or at least it always seems on the shivery point of becoming one....
...For full context, there is Lost in La Mancha, the 2002 documentary about the first calamitous time Gilliam tried to make the movie, the results still a shivery campfire tale for film-makers....
...Too shivery. Another important point about white lights: they must have a warm tone for maximum cosiness. As for those blue lights — those I cannot even talk about....
...In the shivery French drama Zombi Child, directed by Bertrand Bonello, an elite girls’ boarding school provides the backdrop for a story of old horror and colonial bad conscience....
...Passing through shivery little vignettes, the film feels like opening a box of old Polaroids, untouched for 35 years....
...But Belsey’s book is an engaging examination of the persistence of these shivery tales in the western canon....
...variations on How to Clobber Your Ghoul Or Be Clobbered, with funny lines more in the extrinsic, showboat style of a James Bond movie — “Tell me you did not just reference Home Alone” — than in the organic, shivery...
...“I’m not a real film star,” she says, despite appearances in a number of films, among them the shivery new drama Gwen....
...By the first few sentences of The Lonesome Bodybuilder, you know you’re hearing the voice of a remarkable writer; by the end of “An Exotic Marriage”, you’re certain that Yukiko Motoya’s shivery, murmuring...
...On a shivery day at the end of winter I walked from the station over the river Bernesga, along the wide Avenida Ordoño II (named after a much-admired 10th-century ruler) and into a tangle of alleys where...
...Not dramatically sick but a snivelling, shivery, so-very-sorry-for-myself sort of sick....
...That film unfolded with shivery poise in a mysterious girls’ school. Her second, Evolution, might be even better, a stripped-down gleam of arthouse sci-fi....
...One of the most famous graveyards in English literature appears in the shivery, twilit opening to Dickens’s Great Expectations (1861)....
...The pace picks up on “No Surrender” (digital distortion, booming beats, malevolent bass) before returning to uneasy calm on “Missing”, shivery strings and glitchy electronic tones merging together....
...The mood is refined – “Closer” pastiches the XX’s mode of shivery restraint – but there are buoyant peaks such as “Humour Me” too....
...The perfectly judged electronic textures in “Ropen” – cascading bleeps, shivery distortion, a gripping bass line – sum up the expertise of the tailoring. Plaid Reachy Prints (Warp)...
...Burns played shivery guitar riffs and sang in a beseeching fashion; at his left Convertino kept impeccable time at the drum kit. They were joined by a bass player, a guitarist and two horn players....
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