Tag Archives: Denis Ménochet

Mary Magdalene. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Rooney Mara, Joaquin Pheonix, Chiwetel Ejiofer, Tahar Rahim, Ariane Labad, Denis Menochet, Lubna Azabal, Tcheky Karyo, Charles Babalola, Wawfeek Barhom, Ryan Corr, Uri Gavriel, Shira Haas, Tsahi Haevi, Michael Moshonov, David Schofield, Irit Sheleg, Jules Sitruk, Zohar Shtrauss, Lior Raz, Hadas Yaron, Roy Assaf, Valentina Carelutti.

Written history is the by-product of agenda, especially when someone’s legal observance is shouted down by a system that wants to subjugate and put the masses into place. Tell someone enough times that they don’t matter, exclude them, or worse, paint them in the tones of the aggressor, the liar, or the one whose words are based on the derogatory, then history is not only celebrated by the winner, it is a falsehood designed to keep everyone in their place.

Entebbe. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Rosamund Pike, Daniel Brühl, Eddie Marsan, Kamil Lemieszewski, Ben Schnetzer, Nonso Anozie, Mark Ivanir, Juan Pablo Raba, Denis Ménochet,   Andrea Deck, Brontis Jodorowsky, Lior Ashkenazi, Peter Sullivan, Angel Bonanni,  Natalie Stone, Vincent Riotta,      Laurel Lefkow, Yiftach Klein,  Flynn Allen, Gabriel Constantin, Uriel Emil, Laurence Bouvard.

The trouble with history is that it is only in retrospect do you begin to understand how the series of connections fell into place, that the burden we carry for finding that one moment which defines the whole historical fact in an nutshell and the cry of desperation when we find it would be easier to wipe everything away, dismiss all that went before and start again, to wipe away all the accounts and narration away, over and over again.

Assassin’s Creed. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating *

Cast: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson, Charlotte Rampling, Michael Kenneth Williams, Denis Ménochet, Ariane Labed, Essie Davis, Matias Varela, Callum Turner, Carlos Bardem, Javier Gutiérrez, Hovik Keuchkerian, Crystal Clarke, Michelle H. Lin, Brian Gleeson, Julio Jordán, Rufus Wright, Angus Brown, Kemaal Deen-Ellis, Aaron Monaghan, Thomas Camilleri, Marysia S. Peres, Jeff Marsh.

Not everything has to make sense in the world of cinema, it is the illusion after all many felt happy to fall in love with, however when it comes to making a good film, one that captures the imagination, the best way to engage with the audience is not to offer it something that is so unrealistic it hurts to watch and it is painful to conceive the planning meeting in which it was approved.