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Christmas is a time of extreme cliché and even more extreme cheesiness, especially when it comes to films. Well here are three examples of recent films that are not Christmas films, but at certain points in the narrative we have … Continue reading
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As always, to qualify the film’s opening theatrical release day has to be in 2013, it just seems easiest that way. The only films that I feel could have made this list, but I have not the chance to see … Continue reading
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Starring: Declan Conneely, Johnny Gatcombe, Adrian Guilette Genre: Documentary Using cameras attached to the crew, nets and masts, Leviathan contains no dialogue and uses purely its long takes to document the workings of a fishing trawler in the north … Continue reading
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Starring: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Kristin Scott Thomas, Isabelle Carré Genre: Drama/ Comedy/ World Cinema University lecturer Damien (Bacri) and stage director Iva (Scott Thomas) are a seemingly happy French bourgeois couple. When, as a favour for the sister of her friend’s … Continue reading
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Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Mathieu Amalric, Jaen-Paul Roussillon Genre: Drama/Comedy/Festive French Frolics The Vuillard family is no stranger to tragedy, mental illness and indifference, but when the matriarch of the family Junon (Deneuve) learns she has cancer and needs a bone … Continue reading
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Starring: Michel Bouquet, Christa Theret, Vincent Rottiers Genre: Drama/Romance/Biopic/Smug French vanity project In the French Riviera in the summer of 1915, Andrée Heuschling (Theret) arrives at the estate of the impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Bouquet) to work as a model. … Continue reading
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Starring: Ami Ayalon, Avraham Shalom, Avi Dichter You may like this if you like: 5 Broken Cameras (Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi, 2011), The Act of Killing (Josh Oppenheimer, 2012), McCullin (David Morris and Jacqui Morris, 2012) The Gatekeepers is … Continue reading
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Starring: Vladimir Svirskiy, Vladislav Abashin, Sergei Kolesov You may like this if you like: Beyond the Hills (Cristian Mungiu, 2012), Come and See (Elem Klimov, 1985), Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) It is 1942, and in the German occupied … Continue reading
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Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Trine Dyrholm, Paprika Steen You may like this if you like: In a Better World (Susanne Bier, 2010), Mamma Mia (apart from the singing) (Phyllida Lloyd, 2008), Heartbreaker (Pascal Chaumeil, 2010) Danish hairdresser Ida (Dyrholm) has just … Continue reading
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