5 min movie guide
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3
3 is really about 1 who wants both the other 2 who are not sure what they want. In Tom Twyker’s sophisticated amusing (but not very funny) comedy a reasonably good looking couple in their 40’s in Berlin are bored with their successful lives and with each other. She is the host of a pseudo…
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MARLEY
Ziggy Marley is hailing academy Award winning Director Kevin MacDonald’s new movie as the definitive film of the life and music of his father Bob Marley. And he’s probably right. The extended family of the legendary Jamaican musician and Rastafarian co-operated fully with the making of the movie which gave McDonald access to both people…
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MY JOY
‘Schastye Moe’ is the original name for this ultra-bleak Russian movie and somehow something got lost in the translation, as no way can it be called My Joy (or anyone else’s joy for that matter). Tough to fathom out, its actually a series of single scenarios, some that have a linking thread, and others that…
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WHO ARE YOU POLLY MAGGOO?
What was I doing in 1966 that made me miss seeing William Klein’s surrealist satire on the fashion world ‘Who Are You Polly Maggoo’? I guess better late than never, although after viewing it I realize that like me, the movie has not aged well with time. What the critics back then hailed as a…
