5 min movie guide
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GAME CHANGE
If this account of Senator John McCain’s Presidential Campaign was only just partly true then it really sinks in what a catastrophic disaster this country/world would had suffered if he had defeated Barak Obama and we had to deal with the nightmare called Sarah Palin as our Vice President. I am assuming that as the script…
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WRONG : a gem of an absurdist comedy that is so right
If you read this blog regularly then you will know what we really love are movies that are so far out there, and that my creed is actually the weirder the better. And this delightful absurdist surreal comedy called ‘WRONG’ is a perfect example. Written, directed, photographed and edited by Quentin Dupieux (who also did the…
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LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE
The opening scene of the movie is set in a small Bar in Tokyo and the camera is fixed looking on the crowd whilst we hear a young woman out of sight arguing. We eventually see her and find that she is on the phone trying to persuade someone that she is somewhere else entirely. We…
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THE BIG PICTURE aka L’HOMME QUI VOULAIT VIVRE SA VIE
Paul seems to have everything. He’s a partner in a successful Law Firm in Paris. Beautiful smart wife and two young children he adores. Stunning house in the country. And he’s as handsome as hell (well he’s played by Romain Duris, need I say more). Then suddenly it all starts to fall apart. His wife…
