drama
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HIGHER GROUND
The most satisfying aspect of actor Vera Farmiga’s directorial debut movie is that although it is about the spiritual conflict of one woman as she drifts between skepticism and religious faith it never ever takes sides as she strives for the higher ground. We first see Corrine as a child when she responds to her…
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A Separation
It’s rare to get the whole crux of a movie in an opening scene but that’s exactly what happens here when we see Nader & Simin facing a judge on their own in an otherwise empty room arguing about getting a divorce. They are a successful middle-aged professional couple living in present day Iran who had agreed in principle…
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Carnage
Roman Polanski has co-adapted Yasmin Reza’s Tony Award Winning play ‘God of Carnage’ into a movie and despite the performances and Reza’s wonderful words it does still feel very much like a play that just happens to have been filmed. All the action takes place in a very comfortable high-rise apartment in Brooklyn on…
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THE MILL AND THE CROSS
Polish director Lech Majewski’s narrative is the story of how Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted his masterpiece ‘The Way to Calvary’ in 1564. It relates of the painstaking way that Bruegel took with every minute detail of all the many characters and action that take place on his canvas. What few words are spoken are…
