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  • Green Book : the best man on man love story of the awards season

    Green Book : the best man on man love story of the awards season

      Odd couples are seeds for great stories. If you squint a little to see it The Green Book is more than a mismatched road trip pairing of black and white, gay and straight, talent and ignorance. It is the best man on man love story of the awards season Frank “Tony Lip” Vallelonga (Viggo…

  • A Fantastic Woman

    A Fantastic Woman

    Sebastián Lelio’s extraordinary wonderful new movie gets to the very core of Chilean society’s inbred homophobia and transphobia that threatens the very existence of Marina  (Daniela Vega) the protagonist simply because they resent the very fact that she had been the light of her dead lover’s life.  The movie opens with 57-year-old Orlando (Francisco Reyes) getting ready…

  • Toni Erdmann

    Toni Erdmann

    Winfried Conradi (Peter Simonischek) loves to clown around much to the annoyance of everyone including his ex-wife, and even the postman.  This suburban German ex-schoolteacher now semi-retired with just a few reluctant pupils learning piano left, his life revolves around his  elderly dog and his equally old mother who lives next door.  When both of…

  • Mustang

    Mustang

    This sobering tale of five orphaned adolescent Turkish girl starts on a high note as they are having fun playing on the beach with their male classmates celebrating that the school term has just ended and the summer break is about to start. Their euphoria quickly disappears when they get home and are confronted by their…