drama
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THE WOMAN IN THE FIFTH aka ‘La femme du Vème’
When Tom an American College Professor and one-time author arrives in Paris he tells the Immigration Officer he is there to visit his wife and child. What he doesn’t reveal is that she has a Court Restraining Order out and refuses to let him see their daughter. When Tom stalks the girl the police are…
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WISH I WAS HERE
Aiden is evidently a very lousy actor. He’s so bad that even though he lives in L.A. he hasn’t managed to score even a bit-part role for some years now. He does insist though that he must ‘follow his dream’ and selfishly refuses to give up even though his nearest and dearest must pick up…
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A Fold In My Blanket aka ‘Chemi sabnis naketsi’
This rather baffling complex surrealist movie, the directing/writing debut of Georgian filmmaker Zaza Rusadze, is set in a small town in his country some time in the near future. The somewhat sketchy plot tells the story of young Dmitrij who has just come back from studying in Western Europe and now has a lowly monotonous clerical job in the…
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Bethlehem
This tense taut thriller is about yet another deadly incident in the ongoing struggle in the Middle East and was written by a former Israeli Secret Agent and a Palestinian journalist. Yet despite its bipartisan credentials the overwhelming feeling that you come away after watching ‘Bethlehem’ is that the world is split into different camps…
