Deborah Ross

2 weeks ago | spectator.co.uk | Deborah Ross

Text size Small Medium Large Line Spacing Compact Normal Spacious Comments Uberto Pasolini’s The Return stars Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche in a retelling of the last section of Homer’s Odyssey. He is Odysseus and she is Penelope in a stripped-back tale that presents the pair as psychologically plausible human beings rather than characters from Greek myth. Fiennes and Binoche are, of course, spellbinding. I could look at their faces all day. But the narrative is so parched and meditative...

3 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Deborah Ross

Dying For SexFriday, Disney+ Rating:When you learn that Dying For Sex is a comedy-drama about a woman with stage four metastatic breast cancer you will probably think as I did: well, that's going to be really hilarious, isn't it? Cancer, so funny, and terminal cancer? Plenty of laughs in that. But this is funny, as well as unique, poignant, affecting and truthful.

3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Deborah Ross

3 weeks ago | spectator.com.au | Deborah Ross

Mr Burton is a biopic of Richard Burton’s early years and an origins story, if you like. It stars Harry Lawtey as young Richard and Toby Jones as Philip Burton, the inspirational teacher whose name he would take. It’s a fascinating story. In essence, Richard’s drunkard father sold him for £50.

3 weeks ago | spectator.co.uk | Deborah Ross

Mr Burton is a biopic of Richard Burton’s early years and an origins story, if you like. It stars Harry Lawtey as young Richard and Toby Jones as Philip Burton, the inspirational teacher whose name he would take. It’s a fascinating story. In essence, Richard’s drunkard father sold him for £50. But the film is too devoted and sedate to fly as a cinematic event. It has the feel of a Sunday evening television drama.