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Elle
The movie opens with such a shockingly brutal rape scene that stuns one into disbelief. Even knowing that it is helmed by Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven who directed the controversial Basic Instinct, and is based on a story by Phillipe Dijan the author of Betty Blue, still doesn’t quite prepare one for the fact that…
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The Dressmaker
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…
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Hungry
Filmmaker Patty Ivins new documentary Hungry tracked three really inspiring women chefs for six months as they all went through crucial periods for their own restaurant businesses. They, and the other industry experts that Ivins interviewed set the scene with facts and figures proving how difficult it still is for women chefs even at the…
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Girls Lost
Three 14-year-old girls who are inseparable best friends are always mercilessly picked on by all the bullies at their school. Considered outsiders by their classmates, Kim (Tuva Jagell0), Momo (Louise Nyvall) and Bella (Wilma Holm) the girls very much keep to themselves. One day Bella finds a very strange looking seed that she plants to…
