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JEFF, WHO LIVES AT HOME
All Sharon wants for her birthday from her slacker unemployed 30 year-old son Jeff who lives in her basement, is that he gets off the couch and catches the bus to the hardware store to get some wood glue to fix a broken shutter. Jeff, a big lump of a man, is more than happy…
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LAS ACACIAS
Ruben is a solitary man well suited to the interminable loneliness of being a long-distance truck driver. In the opening minutes of the film we see him setting off on a journey from Paraguay back to Argentina with his long trailer loaded with logs and seemingly content to settle into his rigid regime of his…
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Bullhead
The first time that young Jacky was aware of women’s breasts was also the same day a neighbor’s rather demented son smashed his testicles to shreds. Deflowered of his ‘manhood’ at this tender age he started a daily regime of inject himself with all manner of tester-one to bulk himself up to mask his insecurity. He was only really…
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THE DESERT OF FORBIDDEN ART
When Igor Savitsky was working as an artist recording all the ‘finds’ in the Archaeological Excavations in the desert region of Uzbekistan in the 1950’s he used all his spare time to paint. However when his work was quickly dismissed as rubbish by a leading artist back in Moscow he gave up trying to create…
