drama
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THE EYE OF THE STORM
There is something quite deliciously old-fashioned about veteran Australian director Fred Schepisi’s latest movie that gives you the distinct feeling that it actually may have been made 20 years ago. It’s all about a domineering matriarch who has been a total control freak all her life : staff, children and local society, and now she…
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THE GIRL WHO KICKED
Lizbeth Salander our tough girl heroine fights for her very life with a bullet lodged in her brain, and if she does survive the Police are about to charge her with the attempted murder of her father after she took an axe to his head. And that’s just in the first few minutes of this,…
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SEXUAL CHRONICLES OF A FRENCH FAMILY
When 17 year old Romain is caught filming himself on his cellphone whilst masturbating in a Biology Class in School, the outraged Principal sends for his mother and proceeds to give her a dressing down for her parenting skills. The rather bemused mother uses the occasion to persuade her husband to finally give his son…
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ELENA
In Andre Zvyagintsev’s rather somber movie set in modern-day Moscow its painfully clear that despite all its fine principles post Soviet Russia is simply just another society where the ‘have’ and the ‘have not’s’ bitterly resent each other. The wealthy have greatly profited from the new capitalism whilst the poor are finding it difficult to…
