5 min movie guide
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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…
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OBVIOUS CHILD : a rom com that dares to deal with abortion
The movie opens with a very confident Donna in the middle of her stand-up comedy routine in a small nondescript bar in New York. She is extremely funny and disarmingly honest as she talks candidly about the absurdities of her own life. The small audience love it and applaud her enthusiastically when she finishes her…
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HUMAN CAPITAL aka Il Capitale Umano
On a snowy wintry night in a small town in the suburbs of Milan, after he has worked at an Awards Evening for the local school, a waiter jumps on his bike to make his way home. However before he can get there, he is run over by a hit-and-run driver who leaves him at…
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FRANK
Frank is way beyond odd. He is the mentally ill front man of a Band who insist on creating such impossibly bad music that no-one will ever want to hear them. And to that end he/they are very successful. He also insists on wearing a giant expressionless papermache head/mask at all times onstage and off :…
