5 min movie guide
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Cowboys
‘Cowboys’ is an oddball absurdist Croatian comedy that was such a hit at home it became the country’s official submission for an Academy Award Best Foreign Picture Nomination last year. It didn’t win anything but it did at least show the world what extraordinary filmmakers they are, and what a glorious bizarre sense of humor…
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Clouds of Sils Maria
Actress Maria Enders a 40-ish movie star is having something of a middle-aged crisis with her marriage dissolving and her career at a crossroads. She has been persuaded to travel to Switzerland to accept an Award on behalf of her close friend the playwright Wilhelm Melchior who had given her the breakthrough role that started her…
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Love Me: Old American Men pursue young Russian women
There is no such thing as a bargain basement when it comes to getting yourself a mail order bride as the lonely men featured in Jonathon Naducci’s compelling and somewhat sad documentary soon realized. He chooses to follow five men from the US who have been unable to find a replacement for their ex wives, or…
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Slow West
16-year-old Jay Cavendish travels from Scotland to Colorado in hot pursuit of the object of his affections after she had to flee the country in haste when her father had accidentally killed a local aristocratic landowner. It’s the 1880’s and the naïve young Scot is totally unprepared for the rough Wild West and all the…
