5 min movie guide
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THE DESERT OF FORBIDDEN ART
When Igor Savitsky was working as an artist recording all the ‘finds’ in the Archaeological Excavations in the desert region of Uzbekistan in the 1950’s he used all his spare time to paint. However when his work was quickly dismissed as rubbish by a leading artist back in Moscow he gave up trying to create…
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MONSIEUR LAZHAR
Tragedy strikes in the first few minutes of the movie when Simon a six grader whose turn it is to take the milk cartons into the empty school classroom before the lesson begins is confronted with the sight of his teacher who has just hung herself from the ceiling. What follows is not the story…
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Mariachi Gringo
When Edward was a young boy growing up in rural Kansas he dreamed of running away to join a band. However, he’s now about to have his 30th birthday and he’s still living at home with his parents, and still taking the mind-numbing drugs his pediatrician had prescribed, and he’s about to lose his dead end job. The…
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Another Happy Day
I can only suppose that writer/director Sam Levinson (some of director Barry) chose the title for his debut feature movie with a real sense of irony. He does such a good job convincing us that the embittered family in thecentre of this drama has never had a single happy day, let alone another one! Mr. Levinson…
