Video will play in Play now Don't auto playNever auto play• Ari Mattes is Lecturer in Media Studies, University of Notre Dame Australia. The Edge of Seventeen and La La Land are far more interesting films. The frequent use of wide angle lenses in La La Land - which distort straight lines, creating an effect of disassociation for the viewer through their disruption of conventional perspective - similarly ground against its straightforward nostalgic narrative. It is a topical film, too, given the explosion of racial tension in the US over the last few years. The Red Turtle is a similarly low-key film about an animal - it follows the story of a shipwrecked man who befriends a giant red turtle.

Source: New Zealand Herald January 29, 2017 16:09 UTC