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Great Expectations (2023). Television Series Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Fionn Whitehead, Olivia Colman, Ashley Thomas, Owen McDonnell, Johnny Harris, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Trystan Gravelle, Hayley Squires, Rudi Dharmalingham, Laurie Ogden, Matthew Needham, Tom Sweet, Matt Berry, Parth Thakerar, Chloe Lea, Jonathan Coy, Bronte Carmichael, Ben Moor, Emily Johnstone, James Foster, John Mackay, Eric Godon.

To wish or demand for the same outcome time and again shows that immovability and stagnation of the human spirit are sadly more common than we were led to believe, and whilst some change will often rub against the sentiment of the purist, to decry that which sparks revolution is to corrode and rust itself.

Great Expectations (2023). Television Series Review. full post

(594 words, estimated 2:23 mins reading time)

Suite Française, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Michelle Williams, Kristin Scott Thomas, Matthais Schoenaerts, Sam Riley, Ruth Wilson, Margot Robbie, Harriet Walter, Eileen Atkins, Lambert Wilson, Tom Schilling, Clare Holman, Deborah Findlay, Eric Godon, Simon Dutton, Diana Kent, Juliet Howland, Nicholas Chagrin.

 

As the 21st Century grumbles on and the further we move away from the period of time in which our grandparents gave up on almost everything except hope, the more the apathy to maintaining the struggle against oppression grows more weary. In some cases it is possible to hear some people state out loud, “Shouldn’t we forget all this now?” Yet stories from the Second World War continue to surface and perhaps none more startling in recent years than that of Irène Némirovsky and her posthumously published unfinished novel Suite Française.

Suite Française, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool. full post

(688 words, estimated 2:45 mins reading time)