The Movie Addict

I hadn't seen a Yorgos Lanthimos film until just a few days ago when I saw 'The Favourite' and having liked that film I thought I would give this film a go and I am glad that I did. The film is very strange but I suppose that was the point but I think that the strangeness was pitched just right as it didn't seem to strange for the sake it of but because it was part of the world that Lanthimos was creating. Just the idea of taking the brain of a baby and planting it in a grown woman is something that comes from a creative (if slightly weird) mind. There was a sense of Wes Anderson throughout this film from the way the camera pans from side to side to how the places that Bella and Duncan visit. I would have been perfectly happy to spend the entire film on the cruise ship because outside looked beautiful and there was something lovely about the interior. Emma Stone is really good as Bella. When she is trying to learn things as she goes along she manages to make Bella comes...

I kind of knew the story of Nicholas Winton but only what was shown on 'That's Life'. The remarkable story was a mystery to me and over the course of the nearly 2 hours was something that I found totally mesmerising. Telling the story of how over 600 children were sent to the UK fleeing the Nazi's is something that could easily have become shmaltzy and sentimental but credit to the writing which was unfussy and just let the story move along at the pace that was right for this type of story. Anthony Hopkins is amazing in this as the elder Nicholas Winton and the scene towards the end where he meets the adult version of the children he helped saved did get me teary eye. Johnny Flynn is also very good as the younger Nicholas Winton but has to do most of the heavy lifting plot wise. Helena Bonham Carter brings the sort of warmth to her performance that I remember in 'The King's Speech' and like that film this is a more stand there and be supportive which might b...