Reviews by Lucile Deslignères
Portrait of a Lady on Fire [15]
Lucile Deslignères
There are films I believe that will change your life forever. I believe this film is one of them. Portrait of a Lady on Fire is the latest film of Céline Sciamma, director of Water Lilies, Tomboy, ...
4 years ago
Portrait of a Lady on Fire [15]
William Andris Wood and Helen Whitley: Soft Machines
Lucile Deslignères
A great exhibition dealing with all things anatomical! Both artists have been friends for a long time and they both share, though through different styles, a passion for anatomy. Helen Whitley is, ...
7 years ago
William Andris Wood and Helen Whitley: Soft Machines
Pareidolia
Lucile Deslignères
Jaya Mansberger is an Oxford-based artist and, having known her for quite a number of years now, I was really looking forward to see her latest work. As an ex-student from the Slade School of Fine ...
7 years ago
Pareidolia
Meaningful Vision - PMB JCR Art 1947-2017
Lucile Deslignères
We all did hear about, a few years back, the sale of a Francis Bacon painting by Pembroke College. And we were horrified. However, the sale of the painting (that cost £150 to buy and was for ...
7 years ago
Meaningful Vision - PMB JCR Art 1947-2017
The Sense of an Ending [15]
Lucile Deslignères
What a wonderful film! Actually I preferred it to the book, that I had to read quickly to be on time for my book club, and it has never been my favourite Julian Barnes. Or perhaps, frankly, ...
7 years ago
The Sense of an Ending [15]
Hidden Figures [PG]
Lucile Deslignères
Is this the best feel-good film of the year? It seems so, so far. At least Banbury folks think so given the warm applause given at the end of the film. However it is a feel-good film that is not ...
7 years ago
Hidden Figures [PG]
Arrival [12A]
Lucile Deslignères
A very original sci-fi film. If you are the type of sci-fi fan who likes noises, action, gun shots and swearing, I'm afraid this film is not for you. Arrival is more the slow and reflective kind of ...
7 years ago
Arrival [12A]
The Girl on the Train [15]
Lucile Deslignères
Often these days, trailers are better than the films they promote. It's as if producers were so keen to get people to see their film that they do not care anymore about the pleasure of the audience ...
8 years ago
The Girl on the Train [15]
The Girl With All The Gifts [15]
Lucile Deslignères
A scary film and quite different from Hollywood films of the same vein. True, sometimes one thinks about The Walking Dead zoom on zombies from a tower block, but one is spared the so often atrocious ...
8 years ago
The Girl With All The Gifts [15]
Album: Sharron Kraus' Friends and Enemies; Lovers and Strangers
Lucile Deslignères
What a magnificent album! Sharron Kraus' latest album is influenced by her long stay in rural mid-Wales and is a retelling, in English, of some stories in the Mabinogion, a collection of stories ...
9 years ago
Album: Sharron Kraus' Friends and Enemies; Lovers and Strangers
Carmen
Lucile Deslignères
What a pleasure to see the Welsh National Opera again, offering opera at a decent price, and at a decent level too!
I went to see one of my favourite operas, Carmen, and I loved it!
Kirstin ...
10 years ago
Carmen
Venus In Fur [15]
Lucile Deslignères
I have always felt uncomfortable about calling some people geniuses but I think that in the case of Roman Polanski, the director of Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, Frantic, The Pianist, we can use ...
10 years ago
Venus In Fur [15]
Informal Elements - A Painting Exhibition
Lucile Deslignères
Ovada, once again, is showing a great display of new, creative works with its exhibition Informal Elements, including, mainly, works by painters. I particularly liked three artists.
First, Rosie ...
10 years ago
Informal Elements - A Painting Exhibition
Violette [12A]
Lucile Deslignères
Frankly I did not expect much and I was pleasantly surprised. The film relates several chapters of Violette Leduc's life, one of France most striking writers of the past century, and in ...
10 years ago
Violette [12A]
Calvary [15]
Lucile Deslignères
This is a strong and in-depth matter: a man coming to confession tells the priest he will kill him the following Sunday. The film depicts the following week of the life of the priest, Father James ...
10 years ago
Calvary [15]
The Oxford Lieder Festival 2012
Lucile Deslignères
Lieder and songs sung by amateurs, Hollywell Music Room, Saturday 28 October 2012
What a lovely concert that was today: a series of lieder and songs (in French, English and Italian) sung by ...
12 years ago
The Oxford Lieder Festival 2012
Once Upon A Time In Anatolia [15]
Lucile Deslignères
A Turkish answer to CSI? Well almost yes, long long long (perhaps too long?) but fantastically filmed and interpreted. A cinema realite, that could be compared with some nouvelle vague films (refusal ...
12 years ago
Once Upon A Time In Anatolia [15]
Oxford University Orchestra
Lucile Deslignères
Wow! What a fabulous concert! It has been a long time since I have heard good orchestral music in Oxford. To be frank with you I had almost given up, resting my ears in the orchestral paradises of ...
12 years ago
Oxford University Orchestra
The Woman In Black [12A]
Lucile Deslignères
The Brits have always been very good with haunted house stories and this film is no exception. It also has a Hammer style to it and no surprise, as it's produced by Hammer - world famous ...
12 years ago
The Woman In Black [12A]
Loose Cannons [12A]
Lucile Deslignères
Loose Cannons (Mine Vaganti) is a light comedy from Italy about coming out and could be compared with Pourquoi Pas Moi (for its Southern atmosphere and high bourgeois milieu), or even La ...
13 years ago
Loose Cannons [12A]
The Woody Nightshade
Lucile Deslignères
It is quite nice to have a friend who records albums. Because you can listen to them on your way to work in the morning. And in the evening. For the past month I have been listening daily to Sharron ...
13 years ago
The Woody Nightshade
Another Year [12A]
Lucile Deslignères
As usual, monsieur Mike Leigh delivers a great film. It is not necessarily pleasant to see at times as some of the situations are so close to home somehow: a family funeral, embarrassing moments with ...
13 years ago
Another Year [12A]
The Kids Are All Right [15]
Lucile Deslignères
Ah... so nice to see a Hollywood comedy being... so not like a Hollywood film - like all good Hollywood films are (does that make sense? Yes it does, well hopefully!)... very French somehow... that ...
13 years ago
The Kids Are All Right [15]
Time to Leave (Le Temps Qui Reste) [18]
Lucile Deslignères
Le temps qu'il reste is about the end of the life of a young man (Melvil Poupeau), a successful fashion photographer who has just learned he has 3 months to live. He refuses to tell the truth to his ...
14 years ago
Time to Leave (Le Temps Qui Reste) [18]
Le Refuge [15]
Lucile Deslignères
François Ozon is indeed a great great director. One could compare him somehow with Almodovar; openly gay, starting a career with very shocking and over the top films (Sitcom for Ozon, Pepi, Luci ...
14 years ago
Le Refuge [15]
Winter's Bone [15]
Lucile Deslignères
It is quite refreshing (or perhaps the word is wrongly chosen) to see an American film from the USA where people do not smile continuously and have false fake problems or Hollywood lifestyles. Of ...
14 years ago
Winter's Bone [15]
Girl on the Train [15]
Lucile Deslignères
I cannot say that his was my favourite Téchiné to watch so far, and we are far away from "j'embrasse pas" or "my favourite season". Perhaps it is the subject, taken from a fait divers ...
14 years ago
Girl on the Train [15]
Heartbreaker [15]
Lucile Deslignères
Heartbreaker is a silly little film, that's true- far away from the high-browed oeuvres of "intellectual" French films you very often see (or you are very often asked about, as we are in Oxford!). So ...
14 years ago
Heartbreaker [15]
Sergei Leiferkus & Semion Skigin
Lucile Deslignères
It is always quite an emotional experience to spend some time in one of Europe's oldest concert halls, a place where musicians like Handel and Mozart used to play and where, I think, they would have ...
14 years ago
Sergei Leiferkus & Semion Skigin
Ultimate Picture Palace (UPP)
Lucile Deslignères
Yes... I have to admit the UPP is my kind of place. I have been going there for a while, since when it was quite chilly in winter and it smelled of damp (!) - though I was so happy to see ...
14 years ago
Ultimate Picture Palace (UPP)
The Ghost [15]
Lucile Deslignères
Yes, I do feel I got a bit lost in the plot, or perhaps I was tired I don't know. But I really enjoyed moments when I would think about previous films done by Polanski, there was something about the ...
14 years ago
The Ghost [15]
The Last Station [15]
Lucile Deslignères
It took me a while to get used to the fact it was not in Russian (especially after having seen the wonderful Stalker at the MAO last Thursday - thank you very much MAO!) but once that is ...
14 years ago
The Last Station [15]
Nine [12A]
Lucile Deslignères
Ah too bad I arrived a little bit late and missed the beginning, or perhaps I would have been embarassed slightly like when I saw Penelope Cruz do her show. I have mixed feeling about this film... ...
14 years ago
Nine [12A]
Magdalen Arms
Lucile Deslignères
It is the first, since I have moved to your island, that I go to a place that is a British restaurant. This perhaps reflects the funny relationship British people have with their attitude with food. ...
14 years ago
Magdalen Arms
The Road [15]
Lucile Deslignères
Yes, a very interesting film, not the usual high-speed-loads-of-special-effect typical Hollywood film (with many exceptions though). A film perhaps that will make you think about some of Tarkovski's ...
14 years ago
The Road [15]
Pierre Victoire
Lucile Deslignères
My Oxford's favourite, definitely: I love this restaurant, feels a bit like I am home. Contrary to many French restaurants in England where I have been to, there is none of that snobbish-attitude, ...
14 years ago
Pierre Victoire
