5 min movie guide
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Carancho
The opening credits of acclaimed filmmaker Pablo Trapero (‘Lion’s Den’) latest movie contain the disturbing fact that some 8000 people die in car accidents in Argentina each year. It’s created a whole industry devoted to scamming victims out of insurance money which is the basis of this gripping bloody socio-drama thriller that makes for a…
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3 BACKYARDS
I’m been staring at a blank screen long after this movie finished trying to make some sense out what I had just seen. Its been some 11 years since filmmaker Eric Mendelsohn’s’ promising debut and Sundance Award winning movie ‘Judy Berlin’ and maybe he just used all that time to ‘over-think’ this totally incomprehensible follow…
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KAREN CRIES ON THE BUS
A desperately unhappy Karen leaves her married home and her successful but slimy husband and with her small savings rents a scruffy room in a slum-like house in Bogota. Penniless and friendless and unable to find any work she resorts to pilfering from food stores and begging in the streets. Patricia, one of the other…
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Mumbai Diaries (Dhobi Ghat)
As Hollywood tries to ape Bollywood’s success stories, some leading lights of the Indian film industry are now making movies that are aimed just as much for a western audience as their home crowd. If it wasn’t for the setting and the language, you could actually mistakenly think you were watching an American indie production…
