dramatized reallife
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A Dangerous Method
This should have been subtitled ‘all you need to know about how psychoanalysis was first created when Freud & Jung decided all our behavioral ‘problems’ were based on sexual hang-ups’. Of course in David Cronenberg’s movie, almost drowning in dialogue, the psycho-babble between these two great men in particular gives a much more refined take than I do on this…
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PORFIRIO
In 2005 Porfirio Ramirez Aldana’s name was splashed across the headlines and on all the television broadcasts in Colombia for his audacious and foolhardy criminal act. What made it even more sensational was the fact he was a paraplegic in a wheelchair at the time. In Alejandro Landes’s extraordinary new film the details of the…
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THE CONQUEST
This is the story of how Francois Sarkozy actually landed the job of the President of France, and it isn’t always a pretty tale. There is a bold announcement at the beginning of this feature film that states that this is BASED on events that happened as opposed to it being a factual account, and…
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VIOLETTA WENT TO HEAVEN
Violetta Parra a one-woman Chilean renaissance movement was an enigma. This multifaceted unique genius was deeply passionate about her art as she was about her love/s and without both of them she was a sad lonely soul. This remarkable feature film based on her son Angel’s account of her extraordinary life shows how this obsessed…
