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Grassland
When John is not goofing off with his best friend Shane, he is driving his taxi around some of the more seedier downtrodden neighborhoods on the fringes of Dublin looking for fares. Pickings are slim and he pleads with his boss to give him more shifts to make ends meet. He needs the money to…
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…
