5 min movie guide
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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…
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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…
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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…
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LOVE CRIME
‘Love Crime’ opens with two immaculately dressed women in a chic Parisian drawing room at night and it’s really unclear what is going on here. Christine, the older of the two appears to be dictating notes to the Isabelle the younger one sitting with a laptop but at the same time she is also making…
