Romance Reviews and Features | Little White Lies

Genre Romance

Review

Strawberry Mansion

by Charles Bramesco

A dream auditor becomes caught up with an ageing eccentric in Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney’s highly imaginative feature.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
Review

The Score

by Natasha Jagger

Writer/​director Malachi Smyth’s feature debut is a musical heist film that struggles to strike the right chord.

3
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
Review

Both Sides of the Blade

by David Jenkins

Juliette Binoche and Vincent Lindon deliver the dramatic goods in French master Claire Denis’ nuanced exploration of married life.

5
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
Review

Three Thousand Years of Longing

by Catherine Bray

Mad Max director George Miller returns to the big screen with an adaptation of modern-day fable The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye.

4
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
Review

Mr. Malcolm’s List

by Emma Fraser

A charming cast bring out the best in this frothy Austenesque period romance.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
Review

Anaïs in Love

by Jasmine Valentine

A flighty young woman sets out to seduce a lover’s girlfriend in Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s charming queer romance.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
Review

Bergman Island

by Lillian Crawford

Mia Hansen-Løve’s lilting rumination on art, relationships and cinephilia is one of her most accomplished and moving films to date.

5
Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
Review

Downton Abbey: A New Era

by Saskia Lloyd Gaiger

The sprawling period drama returns to the big screen for a giddy swirl of lawns and penguin suits.

2
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
Review

Casablanca Beats

by Marina Ashioti

A former rapper sets up a hip-hop programme for the participants of his local youth group in Nabil Ayouch’s well-meaning drama.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
Review

Saint-Narcisse

by Marina Ashioti

Queercore godhead Bruce LaBruce returns with a wild, camp incest odyssey set in 1970s Quebec.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect

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