5 min movie guide
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THE MAKIOKA SISTERS
This highly stylised melodrama reverently covers an elegant period in Japanese society in the late 1930’s when wealthy m erchants families revelled in all the steeped traditions of courtship and marriage. With both parents dead Tsuruko the eldest Makioka sister is the head of the family and as she and Satchiko (the second eldest) are already…
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PARIS MANHATTAN
Alice is obsessed with Woody Allen. She has a giant poster of him in her bedroom which she pours her heart too every night even though she is an intelligent woman and a successful pharmacist too boot. Even in the Drugstore she runs with her father in Paris she hands out DVD’s of her favorite…
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Beyond The Hills
If I had to summarize Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu’s latest movie in one word, it would unhesitatingly be ‘bleak’. From the isolated Monastery with no running water or electricity nestling in the hills beyond a remote village where even the summers look cold and uninviting, to the plot which is about an ex-orphanage girl who…
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STARBUCK
42 year old David Wozniak is one of life’s underachievers who simply manages to get by day to day. He drives a delivery truck for his family’s butcher business and then at night tries to keep one step ahead of some dangerous looking types who are trying to collect on the gambling debts he has run…
