5 min movie guide
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IT’S ALL SO QUIET
From the recent Berlin Film Festival comes this overwhelmingly sad tale of a closeted gay Dutch farmer whose intensely private and repressed life seems to be heading towards either the point of no-return or a major turning point. Helmer is 55 years old and when he is not attending to the few cattle and sheep…
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STILL MINE
Craig Morrison and his wife Irene have been married for some 60 years and live on their family farm in rural New Brunswick. It’s been a really tough life working the land especially as Craig is very wedded to the old ways of doing things. Never more evident in their rather dilapidated farmhouse which they…
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L’AMOUR
The best part of this disappointing mish-mash of a film is the opening sequence which is footage of Yves St Laurent announcing to the world that he is about to retire. In a highly dramatic speech that he stumbles through in which, amongst other things, he confesses to the demons (drink and drugs) he has…
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THE GO-DOC PROJECT
For three weeks in the summer last year filmmakers Cory James Krueckeberg and Tom Gustafson (the producer/director behind the cute ‘MARIACHI GRINGO‘) and the gay cult film ‘WERE THE WORLD MINE’) followed two guys all over New York with a camera and a script and nothing else. Tanner, a slightly nerdy recent College Grad had devised a plan…
