2011
SHUN LI AND THE POET
Shun Li is a barmaid at small working men’s cafe in a sleepy lagoon town just north of Venice. Her job is the price that she must pay for being able to leave China for which she is totally beholden to her shady Chinese employers, and once they decide her debt is paid they will bring over…
Absent aka Ausente
16 year old Martin Blanco claims to have something in his eye, so Sebastian his High School Swimming Coach whisks him out of Class and takes him to the Eye Hospital Emergency Room. The doctors give him the all clear, so the teacher offers to drive him home. School is over for the day, and Martin realises…
YOU WILL BE MY SON
Paul has always imitated and bullied his rather meek adult son Martin. He blames his wife’s premature death on the sheer stress of looking after puny Martin in his difficult childhood, and although his son has worked hard to take his place in the family winemaking business, he still does not have either the love…
THE YEAR DOLLY PARTON WAS MY MUM
How could I possibly miss dipping into a DVD with a title like this. All my serious criteria for movie watching just had to be set aside, even though I knew this had all the possibility of being a piece of silly fluff, but once I knew that it had been blessed by the mighty…
