5 min movie guide
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FAREWELL, MY QUEEN
When the French Peasants stormed the Bastille in Paris on July 14th 1789, their Queen Marie-Antoinette was holding Court elsewhere in the country at the Palace in Versailles. This rather resplendent and engaging costume drama follows the doomed Dauphine’s next three days fuelled by courtier’s gossip as all their lives start to fall apart. The…
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THE INTOUCHABLES
This feel-good French fairy story with its funny hybrid title is about a pair of ‘untouchables’. One is Philipe a very wealthy Parisian aristocrat who is now paralyzed from the neck down after a paragliding accident, and the other is Driss an African immigrant newly released from jail and living in the projects who unwittingly…
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JESUS HENRY CHRIST
This is an absurd and strange comedy that hooked me at the beginning (weird in my book is a very good thing) but then it went off on so many tangents that it spoilt what I had thought/hoped would be a really funny wee movie. Henry is the brilliant kid at the center of the…
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All in All aka La Suerte En Tus Manos
Would I appear a tad jaded if I described this new Argentinian romantic comedy as a little too close to a love affair itself i.e. starts off really well but confusion sets in and ends quite badly? What is real surprising though is that despite this, Daniel Burman’s movie picked up a Best Screenplay Award at the Tribeca Film Festival…
