5 min movie guide
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IN A BETTER WORLD
I thought I had experienced everything I could in a movie theater already, that is until last night. How often would I ever get to sit behind (not literally) the film’s director as she clutches the Oscar that tonight’s movie won her? ‘She’ is of course the renowned Danish filmmaker Susanna Bier, and the occasion…
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CHICO AND RITA
To select a Animated Movie for the Opening Night Gala of an International Film Festival is a brave decision, and in Miami it almost worked. The movie was Chico & Rita, a delightful narrative that traced the whole incredible culture of Cuban music over the past 60 years and the major influences it had on…
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POTICHE
Any new movie from Francois Ozon, one of my favorite directors, is something that I always eagerly anticipate. And true to form his latest one that I have just watched at the Miami Film Festival was classic Ozon, and a real treat. Set in 1977 it’s the story of Suzanne a sadly put-upon trophy wife…
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Carlos
For the best part of 25 years Ilich Ramirez Sanchez was one of the world’s most wanted fugitives as he, and his gang, wreaked havoc and a whole trail of death and destruction as possibly the most pernicious terrorists of the last century. Infamously known as ‘Carlos The Jackal’ he achieved notoriety with his audacious…
