#Clare Perkins

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Medusa Deluxe (Thomas Hardiman, 2022)

cinematography: Robbie Ryan

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Medusa Deluxe Thomas Hardiman. 2022

Hairdressing Contest Preston Guild Hall, Lancaster Rd, Preston PR1 1HT, UK See in map

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My picks for the best film performances of 2023

Petri Poikolainen as Jaako Järvinen—The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic

Clare Perkins as Cleve—Medusa Deluxe

Babetida Sadjo as Marie Cisse—Our Father, The Devil

Gael García Bernal as Saúl Armendáriz/Cassandro—Cassandro

Catalina Saavedra as Vero—Rotting in the Sun

Denis Ménochet as Antoine—The Beasts

Greta Lee as Nora Moon—Past Lives

Natalie Portman as Elizabeth Berry—May December

Kōji Yakusho as Hirayama—Perfect Days

Souleymane Sy Savane as Father Patrick—Our Father, The Devil

Emma Stone as Bella Baxter—Poor Things

Jeffrey Wright as Thelonious “Monk” Ellison—American Fiction

Rossy de Palma as Masilda—Carmen

Vivian Oparah as Yas—Rye Lane

Teo Yoo as Hae Sung—Past Lives

You can see my full list of 100 favorite performances of 2023 at this link!

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Film after film: Medusa Deluxe (dir. Thomas Hardiman, 2022)

It's a bit a film about nothing, but it's extremely watchable. The plot is simple, it deflates weirdly and interestingly by its end: there's an art-hairdressing competition, and someone gets murdered. Everyone stays in the industrial building that the competition was to take place and waits, reacts to, and gets anxious about the murder. The film's main trick is that it pretends to be one continuous shot, which conditions the plot's development: there are three people in the room, someone leaves, the camera follows them until they get elsewhere, where there are other people, and so on. There are some beautiful performances here, especially from Perkins, who's the film's prickly heart. The ending can annoy, but I loved it.

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Medusa Deluxe Review- A Murder Mystery Set At A Hairdressing Competion Doesn't Make You Pull Your Hair Out

A few years ago, there was a horror comedy based on women’s hair called Bad Hair. As in the hair was the killer in this film. I had no idea anybody could do such a thing. The latest film centered around women’s hair is called Medusa Deluxe. It’s from the BFI and A24, and they usually invest in good things. The story and most of the actors are entirely new, but there are things about this movie…

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New Trailer | MEDUSA DELUXE (dir. Thomas Hardiman)

"A murder mystery set in a competitive hairdressing contest. Extravagance and excess collide, as the death of a contestant sows seeds of division in a community whose passion for hair verges on obsession. "

Coming soon.

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Die immer clevere Zadie Smith hat ein Theaterstück geschrieben, nach der 600 Jahre alten Canterbury Tale The Tale of the Wyf of Bathe, die dafür berühmt ist, daß ihr Prolog doppelt so lang ist wie die Geschichte selbst. Die Leute erzählen eben gerne von sich und ihren 5 Ehemännern und so. So auch, verlegt in einen Pub in Nordwestlondon jetzt The Wife of Willesden. Ihre freizügigen Reden sind wahrscheinlich nicht mehr gar so schockierend wie zu Chaucers Zeiten (aber wer weiss?). Es ist jedenfalls eine grandiose Show von Clare Perkins (es ist im Grunde ein Monolog mit Statisten) und die Adaption sei recht akkurat, sagen Leute, die sowas beurteilen können.

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Medusa Deluxe (2022) Thomas Hardiman

March 8th 2024

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Medusa Deluxe (2023)

I’ve been slipping into my laziest writing tendencies lately, defaulting to an oddly optometrist approach to film criticism.  Because I’ve been catching up with too many 2023 releases all at once in this final month of the year, it’s been too difficult to write about them all in individual reviews.  So, I’ve been forcing them into false-binary competitions, like an eye doctor operating a…

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Medusa Deluxe

Medusa Deluxe    [trailer]

A murder mystery set in a competitive hairdressing contest.

The movie profits from its unusual and colourful setting. The hair creations are certainly eye-catching. Though the murder mystery itself is a bit thin, and it takes a while until you can identify all the characters. It helps that many of them are quite interesting.

As it's often the case with "one-shot" movies, the film struggles a bit to create tension with the characters often having long walks in and around the building to get to the next scene. But it makes you wonder on what location the movie was filmed.

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Watch The Cut-throat UK Trailer For Medusa Deluxe

Murder mysteries and the world of hairdressing are two things you don’t read about in the same sentence. Next month you can see Medusa Deluxe, and today MUBI tease us with the film’s cut-throat UK Trailer. Thomas Hardman‘s directorial debut is shining a light on the obsessive world of hairdressing, with an extravagant whodunnit. Intriguing premise  makes you wonder if Miss Marple went for a perm…

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Medusa Deluxe

directed by Thomas Hardiman, 2022

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A.R.T’s ‘Wife of Willesden’ is a Pleasure with a Capital P

Clare Perkins in ‘The Wife of Willesden’ at the A.R.T. Photo Credits: Marc Brenner by Shelley A. Sackett Whether by design or chance, the slightly tardy start to “The Wife of Willesden” gifted the audience with a few bonus minutes to soak in the vibe of Robert Jones’s magnificent set while seat dancing to disco party tunes. The stage, meant to represent a pub in Willesden (a multi-racial part…

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Medusa Deluxe (BFI London Film Festival)

Medusa Deluxe (BFI London Film Festival)

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