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Twisted Black Comedy ‘Bad Apples’ Wants You Consider What’s At Your Core (opens the original)
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Jonatan Etzler’s Bad Apples, based on the book De Oönskade by Rasmus Lindgren, follows Maria (Saoirse Ronan), a Year Six schoolteacher whose class is struggling to prepare for their SATs due to frequent interruptions from Danny (Eddie Waller), a young student who continuously acts out, (for reasons which become clearer as the story progresses). In a moment of desperation, Maria kidnaps Danny and hides him in her basement. What follows is part blood-pressure-raising thriller, part comedy of error
Director Jonatan Etzler on Morality, Comedy and Creating the Warped World of ‘Bad Apples’ (opens the original)
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Jonatan Etzler knew he wanted to be a director from the age of six. Since that very moment, watching films with his father in his native Stockholm, Etzler has done just that and now, in just a few days, we will see the release of Etzler’s English-language debut Bad Apples. Starring Saoirse Ronan as struggling primary schoolteacher Maria, Etzler’s satirical thriller Bad Apples charts Maria’s impulsive decision to kidnap one of her pupils, the nightmarish, foul-mouthed Danny (Eddie Waller). Whilst
Valeria Berghinz shares 'The Films That Got Me Into Film’ (opens the original)
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Valeria Berghinz has spent her life between European capitals. Growing up in both Madrid and Rome, studying her undergraduate degree in Paris and ending up in London, Valeria cites her cosmopolitan youth as a key reason why she is not only obsessed with film, but with how cinema interacts with its surroundings. Whether that be contemporary culture, history, music, fashion, film or literature, Berghinz has always been interested in the ways in which cinema is in dialogue with our wider culture.As
‘Late Fame’ director Kent Jones on his friendship with Martin Scorsese, working with Willem Dafoe and his love of New York (opens the original)
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Ed Saxberger (Willem Dafoe) is a post office employee who plays pool with old friends and lives alone in a humble apartment with books lining the shelves. After work one day, Saxberger finds an eager young artist hovering near his front door; this is Meyers (Edmund Donovan) who has discovered a book of poetry Saxburger published decades before when he was a young, excitable bohemian in 70s New York. Meyers, and his gang of anti-establishment rich kids and aspiring artists, fawn over Saxburger, h
‘Super Nature’ Explores The Fleeting Beauty Of The Natural World (opens the original)
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Living in a city, I often feel the sky-high, concrete buildings separate us from the world beyond the skyline and the hustle and bustle of the streets distract us from what lies beyond the city walls. We forget, in amongst the chaos and smog of our urban lives, there is a beauty in beings that look nothing like us, a debt owed to the land we decide to build and exist upon and - most importantly - a world outside our own immediate one. Super Nature, Ed Sayers’ debut documentary, explores this for
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