AFS Audience Ratings
Rate this week's film – add your comments too, if you want!
Results in next AFS email to members and on this page later this week
Results in next AFS email to members and on this page later this week
You rated Snakeskin 86% – 4.5 stars!
• I thought it was a bold and brave film. Quite menacing with considerable humour throughout.
• A knowing and entertaining mash-up of genres. As Johnny/Craig said of the outlaw, he didn't seem real, and neither did the other characters at times. Best scene for me was the dog high-tailing it out of the skinheads car.
• Loved this Alice and her adventures in a supernatural psychedelic wonderland. Such an impressive first feature!
• I thought it was a bold and brave film. Quite menacing with considerable humour throughout.
• A knowing and entertaining mash-up of genres. As Johnny/Craig said of the outlaw, he didn't seem real, and neither did the other characters at times. Best scene for me was the dog high-tailing it out of the skinheads car.
• Loved this Alice and her adventures in a supernatural psychedelic wonderland. Such an impressive first feature!
You rated Lamb 80% – 4 stars!
• Excellent cultural experience
• Excellent cultural experience
You rated Pickpocket 80% – 4 stars!
• Great choice, a masterpiece
• I just loved the way Bresson went against all the conventions of cinema to create a sense of unease. (Almost all the conventions of cinema - the image was beautiful.)
• Although intense and certainly a classic in its French New Wave minimalism, I would hold back in calling it "phenomenal" as Werner Herzog has done. I found the script stilted and the action robotic. I think newbie actor LaSalle could have been give more directorial guidance.
• Not convinced that Bresson is that great. Hoped this early film would make me forgive his tedious later works. It didn't.
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"Some acclaim [Bresson] as the greatest… others have difficulty understanding him" – see the director respond to his critics here
• Great choice, a masterpiece
• I just loved the way Bresson went against all the conventions of cinema to create a sense of unease. (Almost all the conventions of cinema - the image was beautiful.)
• Although intense and certainly a classic in its French New Wave minimalism, I would hold back in calling it "phenomenal" as Werner Herzog has done. I found the script stilted and the action robotic. I think newbie actor LaSalle could have been give more directorial guidance.
• Not convinced that Bresson is that great. Hoped this early film would make me forgive his tedious later works. It didn't.
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"Some acclaim [Bresson] as the greatest… others have difficulty understanding him" – see the director respond to his critics here
You rated Rafiki 82% – 4 stars!
• It was a really enjoyable film - well acted, nicely paced - and great to see a Kenyan movie on these themes.
• Loved the bright African colours. Hate the African attitude to the Rainbow community!
• Loved this movie! Very sensitive portrayal of not only the relationship between the main characters but also the broader family relationships and parenting styles.
• It was a really enjoyable film - well acted, nicely paced - and great to see a Kenyan movie on these themes.
• Loved the bright African colours. Hate the African attitude to the Rainbow community!
• Loved this movie! Very sensitive portrayal of not only the relationship between the main characters but also the broader family relationships and parenting styles.