Twisted Romance

Murderous tenderness, destructive desires, awkward love

Reviews:

Days of Heaven: Terrence Malick’s glorious American rural epic focuses on a tragic love triangle
Post Mortem: A lonely mortician falls a troubled dancer as Pinochet brutally takes power in 70s Chile
Guilty of Romance: Sion Sono returns with a bloody melodrama about two women degraded by their search for love
La piscine: Classic French noir-ish tale of desire, jealousy and male rivalry among the glamorous St Tropez jet set

Comic strip review:

Black Heaven: A young man falls in love with a mysterious suicidal woman and her computer game avatar

Interview:

Athina Rachel Tsangari talks about Attenberg, which charts an isolated woman’s awkward journey of discovery through sex and death

Podcast:

Simon Rumley talks about Red White and Blue, the complex, violent tale of an emotionally reluctant girl and an edgy loner

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Illustration by James Mathurin