kylde-1 Reviews

It Stains the Sands Red (2016)

Sparse on characters, & all the better for it

[8/10 · 28 August 2017]

This is excellent, it boils down to 2 lead roles, 1 after halfway through the film, & superfluous characters are forgotten as you realise how true-to-life this woman is. No heroics, just another "bar-fly" who has to survive, & shows her disgust at what she has to do, all the while going through the desert in high-heeled shoes, leopard-skin pants & a b**b-tube :) Her empathy to the "victims" comes across as very real, & her strengths & weaknesses are very human, frustrating to watch, a welcome change from "oh yeah xyz, a flabby, 40-year-old professor of languages, will climb this 40 foot rope no problem in a crisis"

Nil by Mouth (1997)

piercingly precise

[9/10 · 12 June 2005]

I WAS (allegorically) the Lil girl on the stairs watching it all, this film had me in tears literally, if you have been lucky enough NOT to have lived through this kind of abuse, rock on, but for those of us who have been there this is a shockingly accurate depiction, I cried all the way through (I used to have every Monday off school to get a new set of false teeth for my mother). This film is so close to the heart it is unbelievable, and I am only padding this out to make the minimum review length why should i need 10 lines of text why should i need 10 lines of textwhy should i need 10 lines of textwhy should i need 10 lines of textwhy should i need 10 lines of textwhy should i need 10 lines of text