comedy
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SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN
There is no surprise as to what this new rom-com is about as the title says it all. Literally. Based on Paul Today’s best selling novel the movie comes across as Hollywood’s patronizing way of saying that some Arabs are really quite nice people, even in they waste their new found wealth of silly harmless things.…
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3
3 is really about 1 who wants both the other 2 who are not sure what they want. In Tom Twyker’s sophisticated amusing (but not very funny) comedy a reasonably good looking couple in their 40’s in Berlin are bored with their successful lives and with each other. She is the host of a pseudo…
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VODKA LEMON
There is bleak, and then there is Armenia. It was that first country to secede when the USSR broke up, and although it gained independence, rural Armenia kept its poverty. In the south, the land is a blanket of slow each long harsh winter where the daily temperature hovers between -5 and -10C. The opening scene of…
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FOOTNOTE
The opening scene of this film is a ceremony where Uriel Shkolnik is being honored as a new member of the prestigious Israeli Academy, and the camera stays completely focused on Eliezer his father who sits in the audience totally stony-faced even when Uriel is lavishly praising him. It neatly sets the whole timbre of…
