Review: The Human Voice (La voix humaine)

TW: Sui­cide Jean Cocteau wrote La Voix Humaine in 1928 as a one-act play.  Fran­cis Poulenc set it to music 30 years later, des­pite hav­ing already known Cocteau well for years, and gave the reas­on for the delay as hav­ing needed more life exper­i­ence to do it justice.  Dur­ing those years he struggled with depres­sion […]

New Zealand International Film Festival 2014

It’s less than 2 weeks till The Wel­ling­ton round of the New Zea­l­and Inter­na­tion­al Film Fest­iv­al Typ­ic­al Wel­ling­ton beha­viour at this time often includes – Cour­tenay Place place being full dur­ing day­light hours – people tak­ing no lunch breaks to allow for an extra long lunch break to catch a film – tak­ing a day off work […]