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...hour-long dramedy—executive produced by Ron Howard, who also worked on the aforementioned, ever-hallowed “Arrested Development”—is based on the eponymous 1989 film, directed by Howard and starring Steve Martin. This is NBC’s second attempt to adapt the movie for television...
Following its initial release in Sweden last year, the film claimed three Guldbagge Awards (awarded by the Swedish Film Institute), including Best Actress and Best Film, and three other nominations in the European Film Awards and Amanda Awards in Norway...
From a formal standpoint, the film is a resounding success. The cinematography is beautiful—every scene is unsettlingly real, striking a balance between the familiar and the frightening. The lighting is appropriately stark, inspiring shadows of doubt concerning the characters’ suspicions, motivations, and secrets. The accompanying score by Jacob Grost is so in tune with the film that it alone could chill a listener to the bone...
...mysterious, violent, loner persona could easily get lost had the film solely focused on the twisting plot, and that is not a risk worth taking. It is her odd-girl approach that keeps the movie rolling and keeps the mystery unraveling...
...journalist Mary Raftery's documentary film States of Fear was broadcast on Irish television. The film brought to public attention for the first time the systemic nature of abuse at Catholic institutions in the past. Since then, Raftery has campaigned for an investigation into child abuse to be held in every Catholic diocese in Ireland...