5 min movie guide
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Effie Gray
The failed marriage of John Ruskin one of England’s celebrated Art Critic was one of biggest sex scandals of the Victorian era. Although in this instance the public embarrassment was for a change actually about the lack of sex! Effie Gray his very young virgin bride took the unprecedented step of suing her husband for…
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A Second Chance
It’s only the ‘goodies’ that get a second chance in this new rather overwrought melodrama from Danish Oscar winning director Susanne Bier as the ‘baddies’ evidently do not deserve to dig themselves out of the hell holes of lives they have ended up with. The action starts with Police Detective Andreas and his partner Simon bursting into a squalid…
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Iris
Photograph by Bruce Weber ‘I don’t like pretty’ says the 93 year old idiosyncratic fashion maven Iris Apfel in an enchanting new documentary by Albert Maysles. Iris acknowledges that she was never a conventional beauty but that has hardly stopped her pursuing her passion for style and becoming one of most original and daring dressed women…
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Gett : The Trial of Vivane Amsalem
There are no such things as civil weddings or divorces in Israel so if a marriage fails then its all up to the male dominated Rabbinical Courts to decide the fate of any estranged couple and if they warrant a ‘Gett’ i.e. a Jewish divorce. In this new movie, the third in a trilogy of…
