Danish
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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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LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED
In the opening moments of this new Danish movie and we see a Scandinavian middle-aged blonde woman and the coast of Sorrento and Pierce Brosnan, there is this decidedly deja vu feeling, but luckily this is not in fact ‘Mamma Mia 2’. And thankfully Mr Brosnan is not called on to sing again. It is however…
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ONLY GOD FORGIVES
There’s an awful lot of violence, and a great deal of red, and hardly any screenplay and just a mere hint of emotion in Nicolas Winding Refn’s controversial new movie that the Critics have either vehemently panned or praised lavishly: there is no sitting on the fence on this one. Julien, a man of very…
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THE ACT OF KILLING
The subject of Joshua Oppenheimer’s fiercely compelling documentary is definitely one of the most evil and sadistic acts of genocide that I have ever seen on the silver screen. It tells some of the stories of the Indonesian death squads of the mid 1960’s who tortured and killed over one million ‘communists’ at the behest…
