Connie Leroux

Youth is Paolo Sorrentino’s second English release, a highly-anticipated film given that his last, The Great Beauty (La Grande Belleza, released in 2013), scooped up a BAFTA, a Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. A visually beautiful meditation on life, ennui and death was to...

Welcome to Impact Exposure – a weekly showcase of the work of UoN photographers. These images are the work of Connie Leroux. ‘These are a selection of images from Peru, where I spent part of my Year Abroad this year. During this time I shot various types of film,...

Lenny Abrahamson’s adaption of Emma Donoghue’s novel, Room, is a heart-wrenching and certainly stressful tale of the kidnapping and captivity of “Ma” (Brie Larson), a girl abducted by ‘Old Nick’ (Sean Bridges) and held prisoner in his garden shed for 7 years when the film begins. Her character is...

Todd Haynes’ Carol, a stunning adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novel, broaches forbidden love in fifties New York, and brings to our screens a truly beautiful film that bridges arthouse and Hollywood. We meet Carol (Cate Blanchett) and Therese (Rooney Mara) by chance in a high-society 1950’s establishment, as...