New Moon is nothing if not an international advertisement for the hungry virtues of virginity and young people can’t get enough of it
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Theatre
A smart, prickly and rewarding view of sexual and emotional confusion
Cock
Restaurants
Kitchen W8 is a bargain for this area, if such sophistication is what you crave
Kitchen W8
Too long and drawn out but very entertaining with excellent special effects
This is a peculiar play and does not work for me. Some of it is very funny but there are real flaws
Alex has a strong powerful voice and was faultless, she is far better now than she was on the X-Factor
London,
Derek Malcolm's rating
Reader rating
Dir: Alison Murray.
Cast: Ellen Page, Natasha Wightman, Eric Thal, August Diehl
Description: A disenchanted teenager called Sherry is recruited by Harry into his cult of recovering addicts and the homeless, known as Spark (Street People Armed With Radical Knowledge). Shaving her head and following the doctrines to the letter, Sherry willingly submits herself to Harry's will, feeding on scraps of food from rubbish bins. When the teenager's concerned mother Rose tries to rescue her daughter from Spark, she too is sucked into its swollen ranks, rekindling conflict between the generations.
Country: UK/GER. 2005. 103mins
Communal experience: Ellen Page plays a teenager on the hippy trail
Ellen Page made this film before Juno made her a star. She is again excellent, this time as Sherry, an American teenager who loses more than her virginity in a camper-van trip across Europe with a hippy commune called Street People Armed with Radical Knowledge (Spark).
Mouth to Mouth’s chief distinction lies not in Page’s performance, good as it is, but in the almost choreographed direction from Alison Murray, who is best-known for her award-winning short films. It often seems like a work from the Seventies as the gang’s leader (Eric Thal) somehow gets the group to the disused vineyard in Portugal where his paradise awaits.
But it isn’t paradise at all, since he requires absolute obedience, with punishment meted out to the recalcitrant. Even Sherry’s mother arrives to be taken in by the proceedings and only Mad Ax (Maxwell McCabe-Lokos) is prepared to revolt. He falls for Sherry and may be the saving of her.
It looks at times as if it might become a full-length ballet under Murray’s baton but it still manages to provide enough realist drama to show how you can make a first feature cheaply but with atmosphere and feeling.
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