Pedro Fernández

"The Sound of Insects is a very taxing aesthetic experience, and one which does not appear tax with an eye to rewarding the viewer in the end, but which seems content merely to tax and toss out a few nice images at intervals. As an adaptation of a novel which was itself an adaptation of a diary, it almost provides a template of what not to do, namely, to let the narration overwhelm the visual aspect of the work, which is finally the raison d’être of cinema."

In Korkoro, Gatlif seems to have found his Sven Nykvist in cinematographer Julien Hirsch, who is actually the anti-Nykvist, employing a palette as restless and vivid as Nykvist’s was austere. Suffice it to say that grass has never looked greener in a film.

In Korkoro, Gatlif seems to have found his Sven Nykvist in cinematographer Julien Hirsch, who is actually the anti-Nykvist, employing a palette as restless and vivid as Nykvist’s was austere. Suffice it to say that grass has never looked greener in a film.

In a triumph of style and tone, the almost unbearable grimness of the story in Mike Figgis’s Oscar-winning dramedy Leaving Las Vegas is mitigated by the strokes of comic ingenuity that polish off the surface of this mainstream nineties hit.

In a triumph of style and tone, the almost unbearable grimness of the story in Mike Figgis’s Oscar-winning dramedy Leaving Las Vegas is mitigated by the strokes of comic ingenuity that polish off the surface of this mainstream nineties hit.