Delphine (Izïa Higelin) is one of those very practical country girls. She lives and works on her father’s farm in the South of France where her days start well before dawn and always finish long after dark. Her father is concerned because she has now taken to going for long walks late at night, and without … Continue reading
Jacques Audiard’s latest totally stunning thriller is steeped in violence which seems to be his raison d’être these days. This one starts off briefly in Sri Lanka where Deephan (Jesuthasan Antonythasan) a Tamil freedom fighter is trying to flee the country after the latest battle in the civil war has ended in a massacre. He’s been given … Continue reading
It is 1945 in the depth of the Polish countryside in the heart of winter and a young novice nun surreptitiously escapes from her convent and makes tracks over the snow covered fields to the nearby town to seek out a doctor. She waylays three young children playing in the street and pleads with them, to … Continue reading
Life for Thierry (Vincent Lindon) a fifty-year-old something machinist seems to get tougher and tougher since he was laid off from his job as a result of the latest economic downtown that is devastating the French provincial town that he lives in with his family. In the months since he has been unemployed he has done all … Continue reading
Very few people have ever heard of the wealthy American socialite Florence Foster Jenkins who was an amateur operatic soprano known and ridiculed for her dreadful singing voice that was so bad that it actually made her famous in the 1930’s & 1940’s, for all the wrong reasons. Now there is not one, but two movies … Continue reading