drama
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OUR CHILDREN
The opening scenes of this movie pulls you up sharp. On the screen there is a distraught young woman lying in a hospital bed hooked up to an oxygen machine and desperately pleading to the visitor we cannot see. She simply keeps begging ‘Bury them in Morocco. Tell their father, bury them in Morocco.’ And…
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Two Funerals And A Wedding
This is not a prequel for Richard Curtis’s 1994 Oscar Nominated Smash Hit which had two more weddings, but actually a dark and somewhat hit and miss comedy about some of the issues of living as a gay man in Korea today. Closeted handsome Min-Soo is a gay young hospital doctor who wants to stop…
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In The Name Of
Father Adam is the pastor of a minute parish in the hinterlands of Poland where he has opened a center for ‘difficult’ teenage ex reformatory boys. In this bleak countryside he, and his lay helper Michel, have fashioned their small group of unruly charges into almost responsible young men. They play football, go swimming and…
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Salvation Army aka L’Armee Du Salut
Abdellah is a young teenager who lives with his poor large family in an overcrowded small house in Casablanca. He spends his days helping his sisters doing household chores at the behest of his mother who seems perpetually angry with him. Her bad-tempered-ness could be because as he is male she associates him closely with…
