drama
-
VIRGINIA
This is one crazy film about a very crazy woman and her oddball life. Virginia is a functional paranoid schizophrenic who choses not to take any medication but whose life is spiraling out of control as is this movie that tells her story. Virginia is an exasperating woman in her mid 30’s living in a…
-
THE INTOUCHABLES
This feel-good French fairy story with its funny hybrid title is about a pair of ‘untouchables’. One is Philipe a very wealthy Parisian aristocrat who is now paralyzed from the neck down after a paragliding accident, and the other is Driss an African immigrant newly released from jail and living in the projects who unwittingly…
-
CORPO CELESTE
I rarely walk out of Screenings at Sundance and I always sit to the (sometimes bitter) end hoping that even the worst movie will redeems itself before the final Credits roll. This however, is one such film that I wish I hadn’t wasted a whole 100 minutes on. This is a very weird cold fish of an…
-
FOUND MEMORIES
The movie opens with Madelena an elderly peasant woman slowly trundling along a dis-used railway line to deliver the few loaves of bread she has baked to sell in the local store. She’s greeted by an annoyed looking Antonio the store owner who barks at her to stack the bread his way which she totally…
