drama
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THE AUCTION aka Le Dematelement
Gaby Gagnon hasn’t had more than three days off work in the past 40 years. Working his isolated hilly sheep farm totally on his own with just his dog for company and the occasional neighbor passing by, his is a very solitary and desolate life. Once a week Louis his friend and accountant stops by…
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Blind
Blond thirty-something year old Ingrid has lost her sight abruptly to an undiagnosed condition and now, depressed and unsettled, she just whiles away in the stark white high rise apartment in Oslo that she shares with Morton her architect husband. She refuses to ever venture outside at all and actually suspects that Morton actually sneaks back…
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THE MAID
Raquel has been the live-in Maid at the home of a wealthy middle class family in Santiago, Chile for the past 20 years. Pilar, her very p.c. employer insists on claiming that Raquel is one of the family, but she’s obviously not. In the opening sequence we see everyone somewhat reluctantly celebrating her birthday in…
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NEVER LET ME GO
I’ve never been a fan of the supernatural but the buzz around this movie back in 2010 intrigued me sufficiently to want to see I would change my mind. The story from the best selling novel that almost won Kazuo Ishiguro the Booker Prize, is about children who are reared with the sole purpose in…
