Carlo Collodi’s 19th-century tale The Adventures of Pinocchio has cast a long shadow over cinema, inspiring everything from a 1911 Italian live-action silent to Matteo Garrone’s 2019 Pinocchio, via such diverse fare as Disney’s 1940 animation and Spielberg’s futuristic 2001 sci-fi AI: Artificial Intelligence. A Guillermo del Toro stop-motion adaptation is also forthcoming. In the meantime we have...
Hope Gap review: Annette Bening anchors a tale of divorce by the seaside
It’s painful to watch someone cling to a dead romance. Edward (Bill Nighy) is telling his wife Grace (Annette Bening) that he wants to leave. He’s met someone else. Gripping his mug of tea – the most British of comfort blankets – he struggles to make eye contact with the woman he knows he’s betrayed. The camera timorously searches Grace’s features for a reaction. But no tears are shed. She...