God (Benoît Poelvoorde) is not a very nice deity. He is mean to his wife (Yolande Moreau) who he bullies into silence, and he will not allow Ea (Pili Groyne) his 1o-year-old daughter go out of their high rise apartment in Brussels. He spends his whole day dressed in his pajamas in his office on his computer taking … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Exactly why the veteran former supermodel Benedetta Barzini allowed her filmmaker son Beniamino Barrese to make this his very documentary on her is very unclear as most of the time she simply barks at him to F–k Off! At 76 years old and with her well-worn face, it is still easy to see that … Continue reading
When one usually thinks of Switzerland from a political viewpoint, it’s the countries centuries old neutrality that has seen it sit out Wars that comes to mind. The idea then of any Swiss citizen being any sort of political firebrand would seem such an unlikely occurrence, but this entertaining feel-good drama is about one Swiss … Continue reading
The first line we hear uttered out of Tilly Dunnage’s mouth is ‘I’m Back you Bastards‘. And she is indeed in the remote Australian outback small town which she left overnight in a hurry some 20 years ago. For the past two decades she has re-invented herself as a very successful fashion designer wowing the … Continue reading