Apartment 7A

Terry with a demon reflected in the mirror

Rosemary’s Baby: The Prequel would have been a more obvious title for Apartment 7A, for that is what it is, a straightforward precursor movie imagining that Rosemary wasn’t the first sweet young thing to become the broodmare of Satan. If you can remember Rosemary’s Baby we were told as much in that film. And if you really really know your Rosemary’s Baby, then Julia Garner playing someone called Terry is enough to alert you as to where everything is heading. Garner, an adept at playing wide-eyed young women in a lot of trouble, does it brilliantly again as the feisty girl from Nebraska who’s come to New York to follow her dream of … Read more

28 January 2013-01-28

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Out in the UK This Week Holy Motors (Artificial Eye, cert 18, Blu-ray/DVD) From Leos Carax, who only seems to manage one feature film a decade, a unique and remarkable French film that only starts to make sense towards the end, after Kylie Minogue has sung us a song. Like Pola X, his last (in 1999), it’s a highly gothic, amphetamine rave of a movie, a mad mix of situationist vignettes following Denis Lavant (who surely should get some award for sheer physicality) as he works his way through a series of disguises, one of which involves being dressed as a mad tramp and kidnapping a model from a photo shoot (played by … Read more