Film & TV
Kate Winslet gives an Oscar-worthy performance as British palaeontologist Mary Anning in writer-director Francis Lee’s beautifully filmed romantic drama Ammonite, writes Susan Mitchell.
Books & Poetry
Ahead of a special Q&A cinema event this Sunday in which The Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood will talk about her new novel The Testaments, Adelaide writer Susan Mitchell considers why the books have struck such a nerve.
Susan Mitchell recommends two new films – a drama with a satirical edge starring Emma Thompson, and an erotic thriller featuring Juliette Binoche – that centre on mature-aged women determined to reinvent themselves.
The title of this film is literal as well as metaphoric – Never Look Away is three hours long and I didn’t want it to end. It is, quite simply, mesmerising.
French actress Catherine Deneuve is at the peak of her powers in this gentle film about complex attachments and family conflicts, writes Susan Mitchell.
Having just spent two nights in a row focused on all-consuming love – first in the must-see film Cold War, then the luscious opera La Traviata – Susan Mitchell recommends surrendering to the swoon.
