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The Salt Of The Earth
Wim Wender’s Oscar nominated profile on the Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist Sebastião Salgado is one of the most illuminating and deeply moving portraits of an artist to hit the screen in a very long time. Co-directed by Salgado’s son Juliano Ribeiro it focuses on the celebrated photographer’s extraordinary body of work with its powerful…
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Baby Steps
American/Taiwanese Danny has been with his artist boyfriend Tate for two years now and to mark their anniversary Tate gives him a portrait of them both that he has painted. However what Danny really wants is a baby. So too does his mother back in Taiwan who is desperate to be a grandmother, something that her…
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Summer Nights aka Les Nuits d’Eté
After its wonderfully dramatic and promising opening scene with one middle-aged transvestite dishing out therapy to another matronly looking one lying on the couch, Summer Nights slowly muddles it way through a series of stories that often fail to make much sense. The main plot strand concerns Mylene the one lying on the couch…
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Felix And Meira
This unexpected and unconventional love story starts off with the most random of encounters when Felix a perpetual womaniser cannot stop himself hitting up the sad looking attractive Hassidic woman waiting with her baby to pick up her food order in a delicatessen. There is no reaction from her at all or any real connection between the…
