5 min movie guide
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Footnotes
Footnotes is a charming French musical about a group of striking female workers who want to save their livelihoods when the powers-that-be threaten to close the factory which makes expensive couture women’s shoes. It’s the story that makes it a delight and the characters who are the core of the plot, but it’s just that…
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Lost in Paris
Belgian Dominique Abel and his Australian wife Fiona Gordon are probably the best burlesque couple in movies today. Both rather angular and gaunt, this odd looking pair who are such gifted physical comedians would undoubtedly be super stars in old Hollywood where are any form of slapstick was both loved and respected. In their latest,…
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The Little Hours
Writer/director Jeff Baena ‘s new movie is very loosely based on a very tiny part of Giovanni Boccaccio’s 14th-century classic The Decameron using two of the many bawdy stories to make this amusing comedy of his. Using a talented cast of actors most of whom are usually found in TV series, a good part of The…
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Lady Macbeth
Filmmaker William Oldroyd’s debut feature is a stunning Victorian dark period drama adapted from Russian writer Nikola Leskov’s 1865 novella Lady Macbeth of Mitsensk. Relocated to a remote part of the British northern countryside it is the compelling tale of how a reluctant teenage bride took matters into her own hands to re-shape her destiny…
