Violetta Parra a one-woman Chilean renaissance movement was an enigma. This multifaceted unique genius was deeply passionate about her art as she was about her love/s and without both of them she was a sad lonely soul. This remarkable feature film based on her son Angel’s account of her extraordinary life shows how this obsessed … Continue reading
The section of Brooklyn when young Daud lives with his family is like a mini Israel except the ’wall’ that divides the Jewish and Moslem communities is not physically visible. He’s a very serious introspective 12-year-old boy and as the son of the local Imam reads his Koran religiously and even helps teach it to … Continue reading
All Sharon wants for her birthday from her slacker unemployed 30 year-old son Jeff who lives in her basement, is that he gets off the couch and catches the bus to the hardware store to get some wood glue to fix a broken shutter. Jeff, a big lump of a man, is more than happy … Continue reading
Ruben is a solitary man well suited to the interminable loneliness of being a long-distance truck driver. In the opening minutes of the film we see him setting off on a journey from Paraguay back to Argentina with his long trailer loaded with logs and seemingly content to settle into his rigid regime of his … Continue reading
The first time that young Jacky was aware of women’s breasts was also the same day a neighbor’s rather demented son smashed his testicles to shreds. Deflowered of his ‘manhood’ at this tender age he started a daily regime of inject himself with all manner of tester-one to bulk himself up to mask his insecurity. He was only really … Continue reading