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Film Review: Maudie ‘Maudie reminds us that to create art, barriers must first be breached’

With colourful and sophisticated story-telling, Maudie is the story of folk artist Maud Lewis. It is showing in our cinema until Wednesday 4th Oct. Helen Tope reviews. An impressive biopic, this film excels by challenging what we think we know, and encouraging us to look again. Based in Nova Scotia, Maud Lewis lived and worked in a one-room house with husband Everett Lewis until her death in 1970. The creator of bold, vibrant paintings, Maud suffered throughout her life from rheumatoid arthritis, a painful condition affecting the joints. Born in 1903 as Maud Dowley, the ... Continue Reading

NT Live Review: Yerma ‘a searing tale of a marriage blown apart by the need, and failure, to have a child.’

Helen Tope reviews the NT Live screening of Yerma, as part of our live theatre programme. Our next live theatre screening is Hamlet starring Benedict Cumberbatch, which has now sold out, however we'll soon be screening the dazzling new production of Follies, tickets are available now. Yerma – Spanish for ‘barren’ - is a searing tale of a marriage blown apart by the need, and failure, to have a child. Originally set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War, Yerma is played out within the confines of a tiny village. Lorca’s semi-realist play from ... Continue Reading

Scribe: A Modern Thriller With A Retro Sensibility

The film tells the story of Duval, a former insurance clerk, whose life has been brought to near-ruin by his addiction to alcohol. We meet him, one year sober, and looking for work. Scribe is showing in the cinema from 15 - 21 September. Helen Tope reviews. As a middle-aged man in France’s shaky economy, Duval (played by Francois Cluzet) struggles to get a foothold. A chance meeting with an old schoolfriend leads to a phone call. Duval is offered a job transcribing telephone conversations. The work is done covertly, alone in an apartment building. Duval knows the pieces don’t ... Continue Reading

Film Review: Cezanne and I tells the story of one of art’s most famous friendships

https://youtu.be/BCuS2BFgCck Helen Tope reviews Cezanne and I. It's showing in the cinema until 6 July. Cezanne and I tells the story of one of art’s most famous friendships. Meeting during their childhood, the novelist Emile Zola and the artist Paul Cezanne become friends, but as they grow up and enter the world, one becomes a success, while the other gets left behind. After writing a series of highly successful novels, Zola publishes L’Ouevre (The Masterpiece). The novel tells the story of an artist, Claude Lantier, whose talent is misunderstood by the critics and gallery-going public alike. Angry and frustrated, Lantier ... Continue Reading

Film Review: The Handmaiden “obedience and rebellion; sound and silence; sensuality and perversion”

Regular contributor Helen Tope has reviewed Chan-Wook Park's film The Handmaiden which is currently showing in the PAC cinema until Thursday 25 May. Limited tickets remain for this weeks screenings, book now to avoid missing out! The Handmaiden is a South Korean film based on the novel Fingersmith by author Sarah Waters. The film diverges from the Victorian setting of Fingersmith, relocating to 1930’s Korea, which was at the time under Japanese occupation. A young girl, Sook-Hee (played by Tae-ri Kim) is hired to work as a handmaiden for a wealthy heiress, Lady Hideko (Min-hee ... Continue Reading

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Live Theatre Review: Julius Caesar

Regular contributor Helen Tope has reviewed the RSC Live Theatre screening of Julius Caesar. Our next live theatre event is National Theatre Live: Obsession starring Jude Law. Tickets are available to book now. With a story so well-known, in Julius Caesar, it’s not what you say, but how you say it. Winning hearts is what counts in Caesar’s Rome, and if you’ve the stomach to kill a dictator, you better be able to express an idea with more capacity than can be squeezed into 140 characters. In a live broadcast from Stratford-upon-Avon, this power-play thrills not in ... Continue Reading

Elle/Prevenge Review: ‘Where Elle particularly excels is the exploration of abnormality; what we are willing to tolerate and what we find unacceptable.’

Helen Tope has written reviews of Elle and Prevenge, taking a look at both films individually and also in comparison, which were shown in the PAC cinema from 24 - 30 March. Elle tells the story of Michele Leblanc, a career woman living in France who is subjected to a horrifying attack in her own home. Raped by a masked intruder, Leblanc (played by Isabelle Huppert) suppresses what has happened to her, even sweeping away the debris of the attack with a detachment that seems barely human. We later learn that Leblanc’s reluctance to make public her ordeal ... Continue Reading

Exhibition Review: Malcolm Le Grice: Present Moments and Passing Time

Helen Tope has written a review of current exhibition Present Moments and Passing Time from artist Malcolm Le Grice. This exhibition is free to visit and open to all from 20th January to 18th March, here at the Plymouth Art Centre galleries. Showing at Peninsula Arts and Plymouth Arts Centre, Present Moments and Passing Time is a large, ambitious retrospective, detailing the work of pioneering film-maker, Malcolm Le Grice. Born in Plymouth, Le Grice moved to London after graduating from the Slade School of Fine Art, becoming one of the founding members of The London Film Co-operative in 1968. A group ... Continue Reading

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