5 min movie guide
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Ismael’s Ghosts
This latest movie from French auteur Arnaud Desplechin is an indulgent convoluted jumble of an excessive number of conflicting storylines that at times would test the patience of a saint. It’s art for art’s sake with scant regard for the viewer trying to unravel it and get some semblance of understanding or enjoyment. Ismael (Mathieu Amalric)…
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Heaven Without People
The setting for this family drama is the home of a Lebanese Christian family who for the first time have managed to get their entire clan together for an Easter lunch. The matriarch Josephine (Samira Sarkis) is nominally in charge, but very soon as the lively conversation gets going with several family members talking…
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The Judge
Erika Cohn’s very sympathetic profile on Khoulud Al-Faqih who became the first woman appointed to be a Judge in a Palestinian Shari’a Court in the West Bank bravely attempts to uncover some of the mystique and secrecy that cloaks this Islamic culture. Most of the time she succeeds exceptionally well, but on some occasions,…
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Sollars Point
24-year-old Keith (MacCaul Lombardi) may actually be out of jail after serving time for drug dealing but as he still has to wear a police monitoring ankle bracelet and live at home with his father, he feels that his punishment is not over yet. There is no real connection at all between him and his father Carol (Jim…
