5 min movie guide
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The Ottoman Lieutenant
The Ottoman Lieutenant is one of those old-fashioned melodramatic war-time epic dramas, complete with a love triangle, that despite its predictable plot, will probably prove to be quite a crowd pleaser. That is unless you a stickler for history as in this Turkish financed production, the tragic Armenian Genocide when 1.5 million people were massacred,…
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A Paradise Too Far
When Samuel (Maxime Dumontier) and Emile’s (Marine Johnson) mother is killed in a road accident in a remote rural area in Northern Quebec, the young adult siblings both with development disabilities cannot start to grasp the reality that she will never be back. Samuel works shredding paper at a print shop and lives in a Care…
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Frantz
One of the (many) joys of watching a new film from French filmmaker François Ozon is that you are never sure what to expect as he so loves to switch it up when it comes to different genres. This time he has opted to make his first movie in German, and it is a costume drama…
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The Dancer
When you see the spectacular and rather breathtaking dancing scenes in this movie you can understand why writer/director Stéphanie Di Giusto chose to make her very first feature film very loosely based on Loie Fuller the great French/American dancer of the Belle Époque period. However Di Gusto takes great liberties with telling the dancer’s story and…
