British
THE WEDDING VIDEO
Raif has returned home to England from his world travels to be the Best Man at his brother’s impending nuptials. The siblings are total opposites. Whilst Raif has been partying non-stop these past few years, his uptight older brother Tim has a very responsible job in merchant banking and is now anxious to settle down…
ONE CHANCE
We Brits evidently love an underdog breaking through. In 2007, two years before Susan Boyle dramatically assailed the musical world, a chubby and rather insignificant mobile phone salesman from Wales won the first ever ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ Competition on television. The name of this unlikely winner singing Puccini’s aria ‘Nessun dorma’ was Paul Potts, and this…
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…
Lilting
Junn is a rather disgruntled 60-something year old Chinese woman who has been co-oreced against her will into moving into a care facility for Seniors by Kai her son. The opening scenes of this wee British drama see the unhappy mother berating her only child for her present predicament which is exasperated by the fact…
