awards season

Anatomy of a Fall review: Sandra Hüller has always been a compelling actor, one simply needs to watch her shed a solitary tear in 2016's Toni Erdmann to witness the amount of deliberate indifference she eschews in with her presence. The same opacity of her face is the blank canvas on which Justine Triet's Palme D'or winning courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall rests. (Also read: The Teacher’s Lounge movie review: Germany's Oscar nominee is a compelling tour de force) Anatomy of a Fall is nominated for 5 Academy…

The final curtain of the year 2023 is upon us. December, as always, brings with it cold weather and cosy retrospection. Once the awards season kicks into gear, there is the inevitable temptation to look back at all the books, films and shows that kept us company. The page-to-screen pipeline kept pumping out the adaptations. The triumph and tragedy of J Robert Oppenheimer, as documented by Kai Bird and Martin J Sherwin in American Prometheus, got the Christopher Nolan treatment, going from the book shelf to the box office…