British
Broken
This wee quintessential Brit social realist drama shows an agonizing slice of life in three households who live uncomfortably next door to each other in a suburban cul de sac. Archie, a mild-tempered lawyer, is a single dad bringing up his two teenage children Skunk and Jed with the aid of Kasia his Polish Au-Pair…
THE MOO MAN
You so know you are at SUNDANCE when you dash from seeing ‘SIGHTSEER’ where a couple on on touring vacation just annihilate anyone who upsets them in the slightest, to straight away catching ‘THE MOO MAN’ a charming documentary about a rather disarming farmer who is completely besotted with his cows who he hopes will…
QUARTET
For his directorial debut two time Oscar Winner Dustin Hoffman got himself an Oscar Winning Writer, Ronald Harwood (‘The Pianist’), a veritable who’s who of the cream of British actors led by two time Oscar Winner Dame Maggie Smith and yet all he could produce was a disapointing dud of a movie. Such a waste of…
THE LOOK OF LOVE
The surprising element of Michael Winterbottom’s new bio-pic on the life of Paul Raymond the self styled ‘King of Soho’ in London in the swinging sixties, is that he has chosen to present him as a lovable rogue who deserves our sympathy as ‘sex’ made him very rich but extremely unhappy. After all Raymond was…
