2014
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This Is Where I Leave You
The ‘leaving’ in the title of this rather frenetic comedy refers to death and divorce and a few other departures in between. Everybody in the Altman family has both issues and secrets and the set up for us (and them) to discover them all is when the patriarch dies and his widow (their mother) insists that…
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Alex & Ali
In 1967 Alex a young student from North Carolina who had just graduated in International Affairs volunteered for the American Peace Corps and was sent to Iran to teach English. Whilst there he met and fell in love with Ali a local boy a few years younger than him, and for the next ten years…
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The Secret Path
This new gay love story from a married couple of newbie filmmakers Daniel and Richard Mansfield is quite unique. Essentially a two-hander, its the story of a pair of lovers in their late 20’s who are on the run having deserted the British Navy in the early 1800’s. Having come ashore near the rather lush…
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You And The Night aka Les Rencontres d’apres minuit
The opening sequence of French writer/director Yann Gonzalez debut feature starts with confusion that never really eases up through this avant-garde art-house film. Ali and her young handsome beau Mathias (who may or may not be a zombie) are waiting with their transvestite maid Udo for their invited guests to arrive for an orgy. They include The…
