Sarah Findlay
Reviews: 42
Other Articles: 6
The Broken Circle Breakdown
A universal tale of grief and loss in which a young couple fear their dreams may be be taken from them.
Blue Is the Warmest Colour
A Palme D’Or winning, raw and tender look into the ferocious young love of two women.
The Returned (Les Revenants)
Campillo’s slow-burner doesn’t pay off but does offer up some interesting concepts.
For Those in Peril
A raw and muted look into mental trauma from the eyes of the sufferer and the wider community.
Couldn’t Care Less
Beautifully capturing the pain Alzheimer’s inflects not only on the sufferer but those around them too.
A Christmas Carol
National Theatre of Scotland offers up a Christmas show leagues ahead of the rest.
Cinderella
The Lyceum’s Christmas offering should tick all the boxes but something’s fundamentally wrong with the text.
Interview: Rona Munro
Rona Munro on how far female playwriting has come over the last 30 years ahead of a new adaptation of Iron at the Traverse.
The Cone Gatherers
Aberdeen Performing Arts’ production, while visually impressive, fails to explore the religion and redemption of the original text.
War Witch (AKA Rebelle)
A film that is sure to unsettle but it does so in the most subtle and stunning ways.
Barbara
Petzold’s film is certainly a slow burner, but for those patient viewers he rewards them with an emotional payoff.
Dirty Great Love Story
The mastery of this piece is in the enigmatic ordinariness of falling in love.
Miriam Margolyes – Dickens’ Women
Miriam Margolyes’ character drama reignites a love of Dickensian literature.
The Collector
Wyler’s menacing and maddening thriller is undoubtedly layered, but also provides very little closure.
Hospitalité (Kantai)
Rare cinematic experience which concerns itself with the humdrum of family life and what it takes to destroy it.
differently, Molussia (anders, Molussien)
A fairly introverted realisation of a worthy philosophical text.
