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Beautifully shot, ‘Ginger & Rosa’ is otherwise a misfire from Sally Potter

Ginger & Rosa Written and directed by Sally Potter UK/Denmark/Canada/Croatia, 2012 The latest film from writer-director Sally Potter opens with the famous images of the spreading mushroom cloud detonation in Hiroshima. After letting that footage unravel in all its slow-motion horror, the film cuts to the start of its narrative, but not before one addition …

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‘Beautiful Creatures’ a daffy but entertaining ‘Twilight’ retread

Beautiful Creatures Directed by Richard LaGravenese Written by Richard LaGravenese USA, 2013 What Beautiful Creatures has that the Twilight films desperately needed is a refreshing sense of silly self-awareness. The latter books and films, which clearly inspired the former, were frequently funny, if always unintentionally so. (OK, fine, that Michael Sheen yelp in the last …

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Sally Potter’s ‘Ginger & Rosa’ is pretty but vacant

Ginger & Rosa Written and directed by Sally Potter UK/Denmark/Canada/Croatia, 2012 The latest film from writer-director Sally Potter opens with the famous images of the spreading mushroom cloud detonation in Hiroshima. After letting that footage unravel in all its slow-motion horror, the film cuts to the start of its narrative, but not before one addition …

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NYFF 2012: Sally Potter’s ‘Ginger & Rosa’ builds upon silent pain to brief poignancy

Ginger & Rosa Directed by Sally Potter UK / Denmark / Canada, 2012 Less daring than her adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s gender bending Orlando and more accessible than the erotic Yes (with all dialogue spoken entirely in iambic pentameter)- director Sally Potter’s Ginger & Rosa is emotionally raw but disappointingly uneven in it’s storytelling. Centering …

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