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By the time the opening titles of Loving Vincent come to a close, and the film itself begins, somewhere in the region of 1500 hand painted oil canvases, produced by professional artists and animators over the equivalent of perhaps 15-20 months will have glanced and glimmered across the screen. The result is, simply put, astonishing.
It’s Chocolate Week! A prospect so deliciously scrumptious that it’s actually the second Chocolate Week of the year…ssh, don’t tell anyone!
From Forrest Gump’s life motto to Lasse Hallström’s Chocolat, the cinema has reflected our love affair with the sweet stuff to mouthwatering effect.
On the other hand, it’s also done its utmost to put chocoholics off for life – the horror! Check these scenes out at your own risk…
Continue reading 5 film scenes that will put you off chocolate for life!
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There were two available avenues down which The Glass Castle, Destin Daniel Cretton’s adaptation of Jeannette Walls’ likewise-titled memoir, could have traveled. On the one hand, a ‘glass castle’ is symbolically suggestive of fragility, insecurity and hollow grandeur; on the other, it is a image that conjures nostalgic ideas of the fairytale ‘far, far away’s of childhood tales. In hindsight, it is a shame that Cretton leant to the latter. His Glass Castle is a film of many isolated successes, which are sadly let down a misjudged and inconsistent tone.
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