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Breakup at a Wedding
I will confess that I was drawn to this very quirky wee comedy by its title and by its whole concept. Its a hybrid of a movie within a movie that’s essentially a video of the wedding from hell. Alison the bride has got cold feet on the day she is about to marry Phil,…
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Eden
This Eden is hardly the biblical ‘Garden of God’ but a small tacky Bar in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district where some very enthusiastic but totally untalented Drag Queens put on Shows. The opening scenes of the movie are in the Bar where Miro the frustrated Choreographer is trying to put this clumsy set of performers through…
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CHICKEN WITH PLUMS
Set in Tehran in 1958 (when the Shah was on the throne of what was still known as Persia) Nasser Ali Khan an obsessive and brilliant musician is driven to suicidal despair when his wife smashes up his irreplaceable violin in a fit of (justified) pique. He very melodramatically takes to his bed for 8…
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Before You Know It
Filmmaker P J Ravel’s new documentary focuses on a subject that rarely ever surfaces in any media i.e. growing old in the gay community. He trails three elderly men as they all try to survive and have some fun as they edge towards the latter part of their lives. Robert is the most…
