drama
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Sunburn : a melodrama about the return of the one man everyone let get away
Four friends (3 male & 1 female) escape Lisbon one sunny weekend and head to a luxurious villa in the remote countryside. This quartet with their ambiguous sexualities have been friends for the past decade held together by a rather tenuous past. They had all been lovers of the mysterious David and when he…
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HOLY LANDS : When Harry Met Piggy
If it wasn’t for the cast full of very well-known and celebrated actors, one could easily have mistaken that this sentimental melodrama was a Lifetime TV movie. Written and directed by French filmmaker Amanda Sthers and adapted from her own novel, its the preposterous story or retired Jewish American Cardiologist Harry Rosenmerck (James Caan)…
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Sister Aimee : The Disappearance of the US’s most famous religious charlatan.
Sister Aimee is a bonky film about an even bonkier character Aimee Semple McPherson whose story is too ridiculous to be real. In fact filmmakers Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann make a point of telling us that only 5.5% of their film is true and the rest is pure (and slightly warped) imagination. They focus…
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My Father, The Bride : a Japanese tale about being a Family
Toka (Honoka Matsumoto) is an unhappy young career woman in Tokyo who meets her estranged husband once a week even though they seem to have very little common. They only married three years ago and she is too ashamed to share the news of its failure with family. As it is the 3rd year…
