drama
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The Souvenir : Filmmakers film launches a Swinton dynasty
The thrillingly eccentric Tilda Swinton has added to her legacy by birthing an acting dynasty. Her own exquisite cameo in this movie, The Souvenir, is surprisingly eclipsed by the central character played by her daughter, Honor Swinton Byrne. This British-American film, written and directed by Joanna Hogg, is a semi fictional (therefore semi biographical?) tale…
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Edie : It’s Never Too Late
The unexpected success of the Hotel Marigold films gave rise to the belief that there is an audience for films starring veteran British actresses who have been sidelined to small cameo roles. However they cannot stand alone on skills of the sublime talent in front of the camera alone, there needs to be a decent…
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After The Wedding : life is never the same again
American filmmaker Bart Freundlich’s remake of Danish director Susanne Bier’s Oscar-nominated 2006 film After the Wedding, doesn’t just gender-swap the leads but also provides a role as a powerful business women for his wife Julianne Moore. This however is a patchy melodrama that somehow ensures there is no real surprises in the plot twists…
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Label Me : one man’s struggle for his identity
This debut feature film from German writer/director Kai Kreuser is a compelling study of a power struggle between two solitary men who need each other for very different reasons. It starts on train platform where using hookup apps on their phones Lars (Nikolaus Benda) a wealthy German picks up Waseem (Renato Schuch) a Syrian…
