How do you solve a problem like Suzanne Pujol’s? She’s the perfect wife and mother, living the idealistic life in the high society of 1970s France when a woman’s place was supposedly in the home, rather than the working world – and yet, she strives for more, even going so far as to use her…

It is safe to assume that the vast majority of people like movies, but it’s a much smaller group that makes it their entire personality, the raison d’etre and the motivation for going about their daily life. It’s a world that is both exciting since we can explore over a century of global cinema, but…

When it comes to the subject of iconic French comedy, there are few individuals who are more celebrated than Louis de Funès, whose entire career has been defined by his ability to draw out laughter from the most absurd situations. Known for defining his country’s humour throughout the middle of the 20th century, his work…

The art of simplicity is the quality that keeps most genres alive – and they do not get more delightfully simple than Greenfingers, a relatively obscure but still deeply charming British comedy by Joel Hershman, who tells the story of a quiet but sinister felon who is deemed suitable for a new experimental method of…

Most of us see the concept of a fresh start as wildly exciting, since it gives us the opportunity to reinvent and reconfigure ourselves to fit our own shifting identity. However, once your life has been defined by a perpetual string of new beginnings, it starts to become somewhat exhausting, especially when your life is…

Perhaps its hyperbolic delusion, or possibly even sleep deprivation, but when it comes to choosing the funniest film ever made, there seem to be few options better than Hellzapoppin’, which is especially notable considering we tend to view the works of Billy Wilder, Preston Sturges and Ernst Lubitsch as being the reigning champions when it…

What I tend to appreciate the most about comedies produced during Hollywood’s Golden Era is their remarkable simplicity – there was very little need for high-concept stories or films that were entirely original or frequently experimental. We have seemingly lost the ability to acknowledge that the more simple a joke, the more effective it is…

When it comes to exploring a country and its culture, I subscribe to the belief that everything that we need to know about a nation and its people can be found in its comedy since humour is both a universal language, but also something that is often quite specific, whether it is to a specific…

1942 is considered one of the most undeniably notable years for Portuguese cinema, specifically due to the release of two films in particular, which stand as being historically relevant in looking at how the film developed in the country. The first was Aniki-Bóbó, which was the directorial debut of the legendary Manoel de Oliveira, whose…

Hollywood has always had a very difficult relationship with the concept of representation, which is a point that certainly doesn’t need to be emphasized, having become an objective fact. For as long as films have been made, there have been individuals, whether within the industry or outside of it, that have made it their life’s…