5 min movie guide
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Amador
When Nelson persuaded Marcela his girlfriend to move from Bolivia to Madrid he promised her a life full of roses. Literally. His dream was to set up their own Florist shop and make their fortune and live happily ever after. The reality is that they hire a team of scavengers to raid the town’s garbage dump for discarded…
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HELLO LONESOME
Three separate and unrelated stories about three couples that have no plot to speak off, and the only common denominator is that there are all lonely in their different ways. As odd as it sounds (and is!) film-maker Adam Reid’s far from perfect debut movie has just enough endearing moments to make it watchable. Bill is…
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Black Butterflies
It’s so hard not to think of Sylvia Plath when you watch this heart-wrenching biopic of the celebrated but deeply troubled South African poet Ingrid Jonker as both of then took their own lives at a young age. Plath was just 30 when she poisoned herself in 1963, and Jonker drowned herself two years later…
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VIRGINIA
This is one crazy film about a very crazy woman and her oddball life. Virginia is a functional paranoid schizophrenic who choses not to take any medication but whose life is spiraling out of control as is this movie that tells her story. Virginia is an exasperating woman in her mid 30’s living in a…
