5 min movie guide
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MELANCHOLIA
This movie starts out with a stunning long visual prologue played out to the sound of Wagner’s Tristan & Isolde that sets the tone of this powerfully dramatic story told in two parts named after two sisters. The first is Justine, who is a severely disturbed and melancholic bride, struggling to get through the lavish…
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LE HAVRE
There is a wonderful old-fashioned sensibility in this latest movie from idiosyncratic Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki that portrays an essentially gritty story about a major casualty of contemporary life as a somewhat sentimental fairy tale. Set in the French Port Town it tells of Marcel a shoeshine man who plies his diminishing trade wherever he…
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THE LAST SEPTEMBER
Fresh from watching the second series of ‘Downton Abbey’ the Emmy Award winning period drama, I had a urge to seeing some more work of one of it’s biggest stars, Dame Maggie Smith who now appears to be more regal than the aristocratic characters she excels at playing. My search turned up this rather intriguing…
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THE BENGALI DETECTIVE
This ingenious documentary follows the most unlikely man ever to be a detective, and his ham-fisted staff, as they tackle a wide ranging and often-bizarre set of cases. One minute they are tracking down counterfeit shampoo, the next following a cheating husband, and then a brutal triple murderer. In between all this they find time…
