Tag: award winning
Outrageous
During the opening credits we see a young woman trudging through snowy streets dressed in her bedtime attire and clutching a large scrapbook which she keeps looking at time to time. The childish drawings are her clue to tracking down the apartment of her best friend Robin which miraculously she manages to do. The year…
THE MAID
Raquel has been the live-in Maid at the home of a wealthy middle class family in Santiago, Chile for the past 20 years. Pilar, her very p.c. employer insists on claiming that Raquel is one of the family, but she’s obviously not. In the opening sequence we see everyone somewhat reluctantly celebrating her birthday in…
Eastern Boys
Filmmaker Robin Campillo’s disturbing new thriller sharply contrasts two different sides of society in contemporary France with a very chilling effect. The first chapter of his four part story is a near cinéma vérité scene of the Gard de Nord where a gang of Eastern European youths are trailing the platforms seemingly aimlessly, but are obviously set on…
The Past
Life for Marie is very fraught. Ahmed, her soon-to-be-ex husband arrives back in Paris from his native Tehran to finalise their divorce. Marie is already living with her next husband-to-be Samir a laundry owner whose current wife is still lying in a coma after a failed suicide attempt. And the ramshackle crowded household has three children…
Stranger By The Lake : one of the steamiest queer thrillers ever
Alain Guiraudie’s intriguing new thriller is about as homoerotic as can be without crossing the divide into soft porn. Its set on a tranquil isolated lake in a beautiful corner of the French countryside where the beach front is sparsely occupied by a handful of men sunbathing in the buff. Behind them lies a small…
