drama
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The Roads Not Taken: the latest film by Sally Potter
The British filmmaker Sally Potter’s films always attract a respectable following with arthouse audiences, but with the exception of ‘Orlando’, none of them have been commercially successful. Several of them, like this new movie, received mixed critical reviews mainly because they are too often considered indulgent and too personal. Like Leo (Javier Bardem) the…
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Moffie : Soldier stripped bare
At one point in this movie the lead character, Nicholas Van der Swar (Kai Luke Brummer) is warned “Try to stay invisible” but there is nowhere to hide as director Oliver Hermanus slowly and powerfully strips individuality and intimacy away from him. Conscripted at sixteen into the white supremacist army defending the apartheid of…
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Hope Gap : when his parents marriage ends Jaime is expected to fix things
Hope Gap is based on the real story of the childhood of writer/director William Nicholson . He had first written it in the form of a play The Retreat from Moscow which went on to win 3 Tony Award Nominations on Broadway. The latter seems very surprising watching the movie adaptation which is now…
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Stranger Hearts: a trio of unhappy souls
KEVIN JAMES THORNTON has followed up his disappointing debut feature “How To Get From Here To There‘ a low budget queer sci-fi movie with this new web series for Dekkoo. Stranger Hearts follows three gay men from wildly different backgrounds whose lives would somehow one day overlap. Billy (musician Matt Moran) has all the…
