2017
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The Queen of Thursdays
This fascinating documentary with its intriguing title is the bitter-sweet story of Rosario “Charin” Suárez a Cuban ballerina hailed by many as the best of her generation. Her tale starts when Fidel Castro first came to power in 1959 and he invited Alicia Alonso the country’s leading prima ballerina and her husband Fernando to establish…
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The Sense of An Ending
Indian filmmaker Ritesh Batra is following up his 2013 breakout hit The Lunchbox with his sophomore feature and his first in English with an adaption of Julian Barnes’s Booker award winning novel The Sense of an Ending. This is the quintessential British tale of a retired middle-class man who settled for a mundane life rather than…
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Ka Bodyscapes
You need to adopt an Indian sensibility and momentarily put aside your usual Western discernment when you view the second feature film of New York based writer/director Jayan Cherian which has so outraged the Indian Film Censors that they have banned it from being played in the country. What has caused them so much offense…
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Heartstone
You can actually count on one hand the number of LGBT movies that have been made in Iceland over the years, and this promising debut from newcomer Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson is a very welcome addition to the group. Set in a remote and somewhat barren part of the country with some very dramatic vistas, it’s the tale…
