Twentieth Century Women : Why I wish I grew up in a colourful house with strangers.

Santa Barbara 1979.

An old white car sits in a car park engulfed in flames while a mother and son look on from the window of a grocery store.

This kind of beginning of a film is rare. The rarest kind of intrigue that doesn’t require the usual conversation of – “Oh you just have to get into it a bit first before it picks up.” There’s none of that and that is why this film is classified as my third favourite film of all time.

Newness: A cinematic insight into modern love

The hardest thing to do it seems, in film, is to find originality. A new idea. A new vision. Newness. When I first started this film, my immediate thought was to wonder why the camera lens brought such a blue hue to the picture. Why was the light dampened in such a way the meantContinue reading “Newness: A cinematic insight into modern love”