5 min movie guide
THE HOUSE OF TOLERANCE aka L'APOLLONIDE
This rather bizarre movie from renowned French director Bertrand Bonello is set in a high end Brothel in Paris at the turn of the 20th Century and is essentially a series of tableaus of near naked woman lounging around as if they are about to be painted. The house is stunning and the girls are…
THE TIME THAT REMAINS
The movie starts with the invasion of Palestine by the Israeli Army in 1948 and what follows is a very highly personalized account by an Arab Israeli of how life has continued there since then. Most of the story is about filmmaker Elia Suleiman’s parents, and tell how his father’s resistance to the occupying forces…
A Better Life
When you are an undocumented immigrant just trying to survive daily life in the US can be very tough. Carlos, a middle-aged Mexican, and single parent gets by working as a gardener tending the lawns of wealthy Los Angeles homeowners. He lives hand to mouth in a tiny rundown house, barely making ends meet, with Luis his teenage…
CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE
This is a Crazy Silly Film in which a couple of different generations try to work out if they really should take no for an answer when they believe that the reluctant person they are pursuing really is their soul mate. It starts with a bang as Cal simply asks his wife Emily what she wants…
