Natasha's New Film Blog

The Burnt Orange Heresy poster   What is art ? That is a question Joanna Lumley's Patsy asks in the 90s television satire comedy, Absolutely Fabulous ( BBC, 1992 - 2016) . This a question The Burnt Orange Heresy ( Giuseppe Capotondi, 2020) attempts to answer, but presents more questions than answers. To be art, does a piece of work have to be approved by a critique ? Does art have to physically exist or can it be a figment of someones' imagination ? Can an accident be considered art ? None of these have a clear answer, I think that is left to the cinema audience to decide. Some film fans may like this film because of the fact this film is different because, it is a piece of art in someways because it asks questions, and like art, some will like it, some will not. The Burnt Orange Heresy tries to be too clever, there is a smugness to it. I just felt bored by how slow it was, and you can see "the plot twist" from miles off, theres a line fairly early on which tells you...

Cinderella poster This one is a short review, of Cinderella ( Kenneth Branagh, 2015 ) as I have seen this film several times before, but as I made it my aim this year to review or at least write about every film I see at the cinema this year, I had to include it. In October it was my birthday. Giving options of what I could do to mark the day were limited, I decided to see a film at the cinema with four of my fellow young adult friends. I had hoped to see Death On The Nile ( release date to be announced, Kenneth Branagh ), the sequel to Murder On The Orient Express ( 2017, Kenneth Branagh ) both adaptations of Agatha Christie's Poirot novels. However, like most of the big releases the release has been postponed till next year. My back up plan were Eternal Beauty ( Craig Roberts, 2020 ) and On the Rocks ( Sofia Coppola, 2020 ), Sofia Coppolas' newest film starring her staple artist Bill Murray. On The Rocks was on at a cinema an hour away, which giving the current situation was...