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Director – Grant Gee – 2025 – UK / Ireland – Cert. 15 – 102m

*****

Following the unexpected death of his trio’s bass player in a car crash, jazz pianist Bill Evans finds himself incapable of playing – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 11th

Director Gee has a clear empathy for the worlds of music and musicians, with documentaries Meeting People is Easy (1998), about Radiohead touring to promote their album OK Computer, and Joy Division (2007). The current film represents his first foray into the narrative feature.

It opens with a recreation of a number from Evans’ 1961 New York Village Vanguard gig – the Bill Evans Trio with Evans (Anders Danielsen Lie from The Summer Book, Charlie McDowell, 2024; Bergman Island, Mia Hansen-Løve, 2021; The Worst Person in the World, Joachim Trier, 2021) on piano, Scott LeFaro (Will Sach) on bass, and Paul Motian (Boz Martin-Jones) on drums – two recordings of which were released as the highly regarded LPs Sunday at the Vialllage Vanguard and Waltz for Debby. As reel to reel spools rotate, so too do car wheels, specifically those carrying LeFaro to his death in a car crash 11 days later.… Read the rest

The Summer Book

Director – Charlie McDowell – 2024 – UK, Norway, Sweden, Finland – Cert. PG – 90m

*****

A young girl spends the Summer on a small island with her grandmother – adaptation of Tove Jansson’s novel is out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 7th

Young Sophia (Emily Matthews) wanders around the short, rocky coastline. Elsewhere, her grandmother (Glenn Close) uses her walking stick to tap loose pieces of moss into place on the huge boulder on which she stands. The young girl’s father (Anders Danielsen Lie from Bergman Island, Mia Hansen-Løve, 2021; The Worst Person in the World, Joachim Trier, 2021; 22 July, Paul Greengrass, 2018) has planted an apple tree in the hope that it will thrive on the island.

Tove Jansson’s novel is, to all intents and purposes, a series of short stories about the girl and her gran on the island over a summer. That makes it a tough job to adapt into a feature without making it feel episodic, but screenwriter Robert Jones has captured its essence admirably. What you get is the story of their relationship with lots of beautifully observed details about life on the island thrown in.… Read the rest