Wendy Ide Articles

  Dave Calhoun in Time Out London, via David Hudson's The Daily: "For quite some time at the beginning of Michael Haneke's latest film, which is a two-and-a-half hour parable of political and social ideas set entirely in a north German village in 1913 and 1914, you wonder what you're watching, how its disparate parts hang together and what it all might mean. More than [...]

Antichrist: Filmmaker Lars von Trier (top); Charlotte Gainsbourg, Willem Dafoe (bottom). In this pyshcological horror-drama, a married couple struggles to come to terms with the accidental death of their son. Wendy Ide in The [London] Times: "Von Trier has moved away from the sparse, rough and ready work of the Dogme era and embraced a stylised and visually sumptuous look for Antichrist. The movie is [...]

Broken Embraces: Pedro Almodóvar on the set (top); Penélope Cruz as the heroine (bottom). In the mystery-melodrama, a director and his female star begin a passionate love affair that leads to all sorts of trouble. Wendy Ide in The [London] Times: "Certainly, it is unmistakably an Almodovar film. Nobody else does richly-textured melodrama quite like him; nobody else can encourage such overwrought performances without unbalancing [...]