My Father Marianne : a father daughter relationship with a difference
Swedish filmmaker Mårten Klingberg’s drama makes the act of transitioning for a 60 year old priest, married father of two, seem like a walk in the park even in this sleepy country town where the biggest event to happen is the Annual Potato Festival. Klingberg who adapted his story from a memoir but … Continue reading
My Father, The Bride : a Japanese tale about being a Family
Toka (Honoka Matsumoto) is an unhappy young career woman in Tokyo who meets her estranged husband once a week even though they seem to have very little common. They only married three years ago and she is too ashamed to share the news of its failure with family. As it is the 3rd year … Continue reading
My Fiona: Suicide brings more questions than answers
Is there ever a good time to sit down and watch a movie whose description begins with the words “Following the death of her best friend…”? Turns out there is. For us it was on a beautiful, blue sky Saturday morning in an empty London after a few weeks of self-distancing. We were really … Continue reading
My First War : one soldier’s take on the Israeli/Lebanon War
In 2006 at the start of the Second Lebanon War, Tel Aviv film school graduate Yariv Mozer was called up as Army Reservist Officer to serve at the Front. He decided to take his video camera along with the idea that over the next few weeks he would taping how the war progressed but he … Continue reading
My Friend Dahmer
This is the true story of a year in the life of Jeffery Dahmer when he was a High School Senior and before he became a notorious cannabalistic gay serial killer. It is based on the graphic novel by one of Dahmer’s classmates John Backderf who actually narrowly escaped being one of Dahmer’s first … Continue reading