drama
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Jackie
Given that the rather impressive resume of Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín is made up of generally aggressive dramas interspersed with violence about his own country, then it is quite extraordinary that he chose such a high profile quintessential American subject such as ‘Jackie’ as his first English speaking movie. Larraín is on quite a high…
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queerguru reviews Jackie
It’s quite extraordinary that acclaimed Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín known mainly for his generally aggressive dramas interspersed with violence about his own country, should choose such a quintessential American story as Jackie for his first English speaking movie. The fact that he succeeds so well with his version of the accounts in the week that…
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Concrete Night
One can only imagine when the Finnish Film Academy submitted Concrete Night as the country’s official submission for the Best Foreign Picture Oscar in 2014, that the Finnish Tourist Authorities must have had a royal fit. This deeply disturbing story is shot in a bleak unforgiving depressing public housing project in one of Helsinki’s rougher…
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Desire Will Set You Free
We’re not sure if young American filmmaker Yony Leyser based in Berlin is aiming to be a modern day Christopher Isherwood with his first feature that sets out to show a slice of the contemporary edgy queer scene in Berlin, but he obviously used the great man of letters as his inspiration. Leyser’s improvised story…
