The dresses are short, bright, bold. The jewellery is ostentatious: thick strings of golden pearls, diamond-and-emerald necklaces heavy and obscene. The hairstyles are impossibly neat, a series of sculpturesque bouffants. It’s the 1960s all right, but the world on screen is as far away from Mad Men as it is possible to get. As the…
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The Book Thief – to quote from the original novel, by Markus Zuzak – is ‘just a small story really, about, amongst other things: a girl, some words…some fanatical Germans…and quite a lot of thievery.’ On the eve of the Second World War, young Liesel Meminger (Sophie Nélisse) is sent to live with her new…
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Stephanie-Bowie Liew reviews the acclaimed Japanese film Norwegian Wood.
