Sandy’s Film Reviews
80 Films have been rated or reviewed by Sandy.
Burning (2018)
Great camera–work & atmospheric, but slow & boring in places. Needs plot development & is thus superficial. Deadly slow!- DVD $29.95
Girls Can't Surf (2020)
A cheery diversion & a great feminist movie, focussing on a small but fired–up group. Filmed in Australia, California, S. Africa, France & Hawaii. Once admitted, the prizes for women were half those of men. Full acceptance took 20 years. - DVD $29.95
Children of Men (2006)
Hatred of refugees in England well–captured in this frightening but not unconvincing vision of the future. Exceptional extras on disc 2, especially the last: "The Possibility of Hope" by James Lovelock etc. Convincing must–watch predictions. - DVD
$20$15 
Hope Gap (2019)- A beautiful & moving film, finely paced. Great acting, script and camera work. Sensitive.
Sideways (2004)
Very American and very dated – a bad combination. Quite a good script, though. Few Pinots are grown in the area shown, so for a wine drinker, uninformative. - DVD
$20$15 
Donbass (2018)
Confusing and very depressing. The 'humour' in it had no appeal for me
Romantic Road (2017)- Sensitive, intelligent, amusing & beautiful. A lovely, eccentric true film. Intelligent & witty Indian, Nepali & Bangladeshi characters enliven the whole movie, as in real life.
- DVD $29.95
Kite Runner, The (2007)- Upper–class Afghans in the 70s. Great story & scenery, made in Chinese Sinkiang (Kashgar & Tashkurgan). Part–funded by China, but a great film and accurate. Few shots of Kabul now ruined, just like Sinkiang. SFO is real. Taliban hatred of Hazari is real.
- DVD
$25$18.75 
I Am Greta (2020)- Not really a glimpse of her inner life. Rather a portrait of one driven by her father's ambition. I think she's a hero, but here she is a puppet. The film doesn't do justice to this brave girl, nor does it explain how she is such a brilliant speaker.
- DVD $29.95
Far from Vietnam (1967)- Brilliant, but challenging. Very French perspective. Highlights for me were the scenes of war–torn Hanoi & interview with Fidel Castro advising that US technological superiority can never enable victory against guerrillas. Protest scenes in DC too long.
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