drama

  • NOT HERE TO BE LOVED aka Je ne suis pas là pour être aimé

    I so relate to the title of this movie, as it is something I would probably scream out at the top of my voice in a temper tantrum before everybody, me included, would burst out laughing.  It was what first made me notice this movie in the Netflix catalogue, but the reason I then sat…

  • THE FATHER OF MY CHILDREN

    Gregoire Canvel has two major passions in his life:  producing art-house movies and his family.  Right from the opening scenes of this movie we can see that he his in trouble … the financial kind.  The Production House that he owns has enormous debts and Gregoire with one hand permanently holding a cellphone to his…

  • THE OFF HOURS

    It’s really tough trying to relate or warm to a movie where every character bar one is so depressed. and this is one such case even though it really is not a bad wee film. It’s set in a small town diner where Francine a bored young unmotivated waitress works the night shift.  Business is…

  • THE PARADE

    I know I was laughing far too hard at the opening scenes of this wickedly funny comedy because from the word go I knew the plot was horribly un-pc.  This is a Serbian movie that poked fun about widespread homophobia but also indulged in racial slurs between all the different peoples that once made up…