5 min movie guide
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IDA
It’s hard to decide exactly what period this new cinematic masterpiece from Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski is set in with its austere dramatic settings that look like they have remained unchanged for centuries. This unforgiving bleak countryside that seems to have escaped any attempt at modernisation is in fact 1962 but you have this sinking feeling that…
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VERY GOOD GIRLS
Best friends Lily and Gerri are determined to lose their virginity during their last summer together before they leave home for College. The drag is that there is evidently only one decent looking potential candidate to perform this service in Brighton Beach, and they both fall for him. The object of their affections is David…
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JUST A SIGH aka Le temps de l’aventure
What starts as not even a brief encounter but just mere eye contact across a crowded train carriage followed by one quick question, leads into a 24 hour romantic liaison that neither of the two strangers expected. Alix is a beautiful middle-aged actress who is commuting between Calais where she is currently performing in an…
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THE GOLDEN DREAM aka ‘La jaula de oro’
This story about Guatemalan teenagers trying to escape their life of poverty and illegally cross the Mexican Border after a long and arduous journey en route to the USA, is one of the saddest and most dispiriting I have seen in a very long time. It starts with three friends Samuel, Juan and his girlfriend…
