5 min movie guide
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LEAP YEAR
Laura’s life is beyond bleak. To try to escape her unspoken troubled past she moves from her family home deep in the countryside to her own somewhat desolate apartment in Mexico City. Desperately lonely and completely friendless and working as a journalist from home, her whole life is defined by the four walls which confine…
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SEX & DRUGS
This unlikely film is about an unlikely Punk musician who was an eccentric and wild performer and whose music with its bizarre lyrics was an unforgettable presence on the Brit music scene until his untimely death at the age of 57 in 2000. Ian Dury’s childhood polio my have left him physically disabled but it seemed…
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YOUNG GOETHE IN LOVE
After young Johann Wolfgang von Goethe fails his Doctorial Examination his father dispatches him to some godforsaken suburban town so that he can knuckle down and become a Lawyer like him. Whilst there he falls in love with a pretty but penniless girl in the next village and when he is spurned because she chooses another…
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MAKING SH*T UP
This documentary on the work of Bert Rodriguez the conceptual artist had its World Premiere in Miami last night. It was an exhilarating ride, as befitting the extraordinary talent of this Miami born/based man. It follows his life from 2008, just before his famed Whitney Biennale pieces, right through a whole roller coaster ride of expositions…
