Featuring: Valérie Donzelli, Jérémie Elkaïm, Brigitte Sy, Michèle Moretti, Béatrice De Staël, Anne Le Ny, Frédéric Pierrot
Director: Valérie Donzelli
Australian release date: 31 May, 2012
Review 1: rolanstein
Review 2: Karen

Story:
Romeo (Jérémie Elkaïm) and Juliette (Valérie Donzelli) are a hip young Parisian couple whose care-free and spontaneous world is smacked off its axis when their toddler son, Adam, is diagnosed with a rare and aggressive brain cancer. With a background media announcement of the US invasion of Iraq providing a chronological marker, Romeo and Juliette find themselves on a battlefield of their own, engaged in an epic war against their son’s disease, an unpredictable and enigmatic enemy threatening everything they cherish. Continue reading Declaration Of War Movie Review →

Featuring: Jiro Ono, Yoshikazu Ono, Takashi Ono
Director & cinematographer: David Gelb
Australian release date: May 10, 2012
Review: rolanstein

When I started baking sourdough bread, about 3 years ago now, I was alight with new obsession. I bought bread book after bread book, spent unseemly hours on bread forums, ploughed through many different recipes and techniques, extended my sourdough baking repertoire from breads to panettone, bagels, hot cross buns, stollen, fougasse, Kouign Amann (I’d never heard of it, either)…

Over time, and with the mania of obsession giving way to mere baking compulsion, I’ve begun to understand that repetition, not range, is the key to incremental improvement of all the little subtle elements – the unending minutiae – that separate the able craftsman from the master. Continue reading Jiro Dreams Of Sushi Movie Review →

I was fortunate as a child to attend just about every national and international production that made it to His Majesty’s Theatre: musicals, operas, ballet, choral concerts, we missed nothing. I’m ever grateful to my mother for her commitment to exposing her brood to live theatrical events. These childhood experiences were not only magical in themselves, but set up an enduring love of live performance art. Continue reading Matthew Bourne’s SWAN LAKE in 3D Review →