Tag: indie
LAS ACACIAS
Ruben is a solitary man well suited to the interminable loneliness of being a long-distance truck driver. In the opening minutes of the film we see him setting off on a journey from Paraguay back to Argentina with his long trailer loaded with logs and seemingly content to settle into his rigid regime of his…
MONSIEUR LAZHAR
Tragedy strikes in the first few minutes of the movie when Simon a six grader whose turn it is to take the milk cartons into the empty school classroom before the lesson begins is confronted with the sight of his teacher who has just hung herself from the ceiling. What follows is not the story…
THE OFF HOURS
It’s really tough trying to relate or warm to a movie where every character bar one is so depressed. and this is one such case even though it really is not a bad wee film. It’s set in a small town diner where Francine a bored young unmotivated waitress works the night shift. Business is…
Bellflower
I guess this new hip, slightly grubby, apocalyptic indie movie could be classified as ‘mumblecore* plus’ i.e. it’s a tad more professional (despite the minuscule budget) and more accessible than others in that genre. It’s about two young men barely grown up who are best friends, good looking, immensely personable, very funny and quick-witted, and who are…
MELANCHOLIA
This movie starts out with a stunning long visual prologue played out to the sound of Wagner’s Tristan & Isolde that sets the tone of this powerfully dramatic story told in two parts named after two sisters. The first is Justine, who is a severely disturbed and melancholic bride, struggling to get through the lavish…
