French
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Me, Myself & Mum
Guillaume has to ‘come out’ to his entire family but that’s no easy task in this quirky French comedy which has a neat twist on this perennial situation. His problem is that they all pronounced that he was ‘gay’ from birth and have treated him as an effeminate camp boy ever since. The trouble is…
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The Easy Way Out aka L’Art de la Fugue
Antoine is the middle one of three Parisian brothers, and is the one who has taken it upon himself to sort out his siblings unhappy lives even though his own is heading south too. He works as a writer producing catalogues for exhibitions who are feeling the pinch in a tough economic climate, and he…
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You And The Night aka Les Rencontres d’apres minuit
The opening sequence of French writer/director Yann Gonzalez debut feature starts with confusion that never really eases up through this avant-garde art-house film. Ali and her young handsome beau Mathias (who may or may not be a zombie) are waiting with their transvestite maid Udo for their invited guests to arrive for an orgy. They include The…
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For A Woman aka Pour Une Femme
Soon after their mother dies in the 1980’s siblings Anne and Tania are sorting through her belongings when they come across a box of old photographs that they had never seen before. Anne, the older of the two is a film director, and is positively intrigued by this discovery. Their mother had always been deliberately…
