5 min movie guide
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The Queen of Thursdays
This fascinating documentary with its intriguing title is the bitter-sweet story of Rosario “Charin” Suárez a Cuban ballerina hailed by many as the best of her generation. Her tale starts when Fidel Castro first came to power in 1959 and he invited Alicia Alonso the country’s leading prima ballerina and her husband Fernando to establish…
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The Sense of An Ending
Indian filmmaker Ritesh Batra is following up his 2013 breakout hit The Lunchbox with his sophomore feature and his first in English with an adaption of Julian Barnes’s Booker award winning novel The Sense of an Ending. This is the quintessential British tale of a retired middle-class man who settled for a mundane life rather than…
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The Last Word
Veteran Oscar-winner Shirley MacLaine is one of those rare breed of actors that we would happily wait in line just to hear her read the Telephone Directory out loud, in fact there are parts in this rather tepid contrived comedy that we wished she had being doing just that. It wasn’t the fact that this…
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What’s Left Of My Life
This compelling multi-layered story that is an extremely impressive feature film debut from German director / c0-writer Jens Wischnewski. Told in a series of flashbacks which combined with present day scenes is the story of Schimon May (Christoph Letkowski) who now in his 30’s has found happiness only to have it cruelly snatched away, but then is…
