drama
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Taekwondo
It is easy to see how some people may find Argentinian filmmaker Marco Berger’s latest movie way too strung out as he teases us for the entire 105 minutes as to whether his two young protagonist’s budding relationship ever take flight, but it is the most tenderest of tales, so beautifully told, that it’s impossible…
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Discreet
Experimental filmmaker Travis Mathews latest movie starts out with a kaleidoscope of slightly bizarre and unrelated images before he rolls out the bare bones of the story. We are never too sure the genre he is aiming for as what we assume at the beginning is probably intended as an audio visual art piece but…
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It’s Only The End of The World
French-Canadian filmmaker Xavier Dolan’s latest impassioned cinematic outing, and his most mature to date, is a family drama that consists of a lot of very long wordy speeches, yet it is essential about what is not being said about the elephant in the room. 42-year-old Louis (Gaspard Ulliel) has come back to his family…
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What’s Left Of My Life
This compelling multi-layered story that is an extremely impressive feature film debut from German director / c0-writer Jens Wischnewski. Told in a series of flashbacks which combined with present day scenes is the story of Schimon May (Christoph Letkowski) who now in his 30’s has found happiness only to have it cruelly snatched away, but then is…
