2013
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THE AUCTION aka Le Dematelement
Gaby Gagnon hasn’t had more than three days off work in the past 40 years. Working his isolated hilly sheep farm totally on his own with just his dog for company and the occasional neighbor passing by, his is a very solitary and desolate life. Once a week Louis his friend and accountant stops by…
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THE FRENCH MINISTER
The Minister in question is France’s Foreign Secretary and although the script is based on the popular graphic novels of Abel Lanzac (the nom de plume for Antoin Baudry) the story is based on the antics of Dominique de Villepain a real Minister who went on to become Prime Minister. And that’s the main reason why…
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THE DOUBLE
British Comedian turned Filmmaker Richard Ayoade’s sophomore feature ‘The Double’ was not what I expected. After his Sundance debut in 2011 with the delightfully refreshing quirky coming-of-age comedy ‘Submarine’, Ayoade has chosen to go very dark with this existential black comedy/thriller based on Dostoevsky’s novella of the same name. Thanks to Jesse Eisenberg’s energetic performance playing…
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The Dog
John Wojtowicz was a loud potty-mouthed self-absorbed oddball whose ill-conceived bungled bank robbery brought him an infamy that he clung to desperately for the rest of his life. He was a brash Brooklynite, who fresh out of the army at the age of 22, married the first girl he set his eyes on. Before the…
