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 … Continue reading
Soon after their mother dies in the 1980’s siblings Anne and Tania are sorting through her belongings when they come across a box of old photographs that they had never seen before. Anne, the older of the two is a film director, and is positively intrigued by this discovery. Their mother had always been deliberately … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
It’s unusual to see the Oscar winning actress Marion Cotillard in anything as syrupy as From The Land of The Moon which in the old days would be simply dismissed as a ‘women’s picture’. Her presence and that of co-star Louis Garrel does at least raise the bar somewhat in what is otherwise a … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading