Contributions from Sophie Monks Kaufman | Little White Lies

Contributor Sophie Monks Kaufman

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Festivals

You Were Never Really Here – first look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Joaquin Phoenix bares his soul in Lynne Ramsay’s noir-tinged New York thriller.
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Festivals

The Beguiled – first look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Sofia Cop­po­la stuns the Cannes crowd with an intox­i­cat­ing film about repressed female sexuality.
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Interviews

Sofia Coppola: ‘I’m telling the same story but from the women’s point of view’

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

The writer/​director tells us how she toyed with gen­der pol­i­tics and screen hunks for her new film, The Beguiled.
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Festivals

The Killing of a Sacred Deer – first look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

A nasty case of dra­mat­ic iner­tia blights Yor­gos Lan­thi­mos’ lat­est black comedy.
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Festivals

The Meyerowitz Stories – first look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Adam San­dler deliv­ers one of his rare affect­ing turns as one of the co-leads in Noah Baumbach’s fam­i­ly comedy.
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Festivals

120 Beats Per Minute – first look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Robin Campillo’s rous­ing drama­ti­sa­tion of ​’90s AIDS activism in France is a sure-fire Palme d’Or contender.
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Festivals

The Square – first look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

This barbed satire of art world pom­pos­i­ty ques­tions the core beliefs of civilised society.
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Festivals

Let the Sunshine In – first look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

The art of flirt­ing and flirt­ing as art are the sub­jects of this extra­or­di­nary rom­com from Claire Denis.
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Festivals

Loveless – first look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

A war­ring cou­ple reunite to find their miss­ing son in this blunt dra­ma from Leviathan direc­tor Andrei Zvyagintsev.
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Review

The Last Face

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Direc­tor Sean Penn drops an almighty clanger with this tepid war zone dra­ma star­ring Char­l­ize Theron and Javier Bardem.

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In Retrospect