romance
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NOT HERE TO BE LOVED aka Je ne suis pas là pour être aimé
I so relate to the title of this movie, as it is something I would probably scream out at the top of my voice in a temper tantrum before everybody, me included, would burst out laughing. It was what first made me notice this movie in the Netflix catalogue, but the reason I then sat…
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LIKE CRAZY
So here’s a story that I can relate too personally: how the course of true love was knocked off-kilter because one of the lovers was American and the other a Brit and they were the subject to all the red-tape of immigration restrictions. The fact that one of them overstayed their visa didn’t help their…
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WEEKEND
For the ‘NY Times’ to review a ‘gay’ movie is far too rare an occurrence but when A.O Scott, its senior Critic, goes one step further and gives one a rave review, then you know that that this is no ordinary film. This wee British movie shot over two weeks and as the title suggests,…
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RESTLESS
A beautiful young girl dying of cancer falls in love with a young man who she coaxes back to the world of the living after both his parents die, sounds like a tear-jerker sappy story that I would run from BUT add filmmaker extraordinaire Gus Van Sant into the mix, and you know this will…
