drama
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Berlin, I Love You ; the latest in the I Love You Cities movie series
The ‘I Love You City’ series of movies started off with such a bang with the first film ‘Paris I Live You’ in 2006 but has been a rather major disappointment ever since This latest, and the 4th in the franchise, is based in Berlin and as usual boasts an impressive line up of…
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J T LEROY : Literary Bandit’s Haul of Mirrors
The story of this literary hoax is a confusing one but the movie is a Dummy’s Guide to JT LeRoy and lays out the pieces in a way that begins to make sense. As it holds up a mirror to people pretending to be who they are not it is hard to decide if…
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Men Of Hard Skin : a dark abusive coming-of-age tale set in the Argentinian countryside
Teenage Ariel (Wall Javier) lives in a large rambling farm outside of Buenos Aires with his machismo father ( Claudio Medina) and older sister (Camila Diez) after his mother had upped and left some years previously. .He’s a major disappointment to his father as he is a quiet sensitive boy who shows no interest…
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FIREFLIES : an Iranian gay man’s search for freedom
After escaping from Iran where he was persecuted for being gay, Ramin (Arash Marandi) mistakenly takes the wrong freighter out of the port and ends up stranded in Vera Cruz Mexico. It is hardly the vibrant city that it once was and is now decaying and demoralised like so many of people who seem…
