WALK WITH ME

and we’re swept elegantly along by Scott’s accomplished driving of the story. He confidently sculpts a typically fabulous visual texture as he moves fluidly from the US to Africa and Europe. There’s a fist-in-themouth ear-cutting scene to rival the infamous one from Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs. And Scott has the confidence to slow the pace to create tension as the clock ticks down.

Scott, Plummer and Williams have all received prestigious Golden Globe nominations and a run to the Academy Awards is in their sights.

Scott may go one better than Welles and win a long-coveted and deserved best director Oscar – and that’s something all the money in the world can’t buy. Cert

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There’s not much to be learned from this fly-on-the-wall documentary which amounts to little more than an advert for a Buddhist retreat in France.

The filmmakers seem to have traded access for acquiescence and checked their critical faculties at the front gate.

Bells regulate the lives of the monks at the sound of which all activities pause in order to encourage ‘mindfulness’.

However, enlightenment can be anyone’s for a mind-expanding €550 per person per week for a double-room stay at the monastery. Since the film is coy about the prices, I looked them up.

The concept of ‘mindfulness’ seems to be that ‘life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it’. Well, it was actually Ferris Bueller who said that and he got to drive a Ferrari.

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