Cannes
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LIKE FATHER LIKE SON
In the opening scene a young 6 year-old boy is sitting upright in a low chair spaced away from his parents who are either side of him. All three are dressed formally in black and are facing two officials behind a desk in this stark room who are firing questions at the boy. It’s all very…
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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…
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THE HUNT
Lucas is slowly getting his life together after a messy divorce with a traumatic custody battle, and also losing his teaching job as a result of the recession. Now in this small Danish country town he is working helping out at a kindergarten in the day and hanging out having fun with his male friends at…
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INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
Poor Llewyn is both a loser and a user. Nothing is safe in his hands as his life careers from disaster to disaster whilst he goes from crashing on couch to couch in his long suffering friend’s New York apartments. He even manages to lose one of his host’s cat that he lets escape into…
