romantic comedy
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GAYBY
Jenn’s biological clock is ticking away and she wants to have a baby whilst she still can. Trouble is none of her beaus stick around longer than a few months, so she falls back on her Plan B. Many years ago at College she entered a pact with her best friend Matt that if she…
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Beloved aka Les Bien Aimes
Christophe Honore’s rather baffling epic-length drama covers the time span between the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia and the 9/11 attacks and against this background world-changing events the story is simply about two women who tried desperately to be loved. Young Madeleine discovers the way to pay for the expensive fancy shoes she coverts at the…
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QUEEN TO PLAY
I have always loved how French movie makers stretch their imaginations when it comes to dealing with ‘amour’, but using an obsession with chess to help a repressed housewife rekindle her sexuality was just a tad too far fetched for me. Helene is a chambermaid in a luxury hotel in Corsica and after a putting…
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HYSTERIA
At the end of 19th Century in Victorian England there was no such term as ‘orgasm’, well for women anyway, and probably no need for one because according to this rather absurd comic movie, they weren’t getting them anyway. Many wealthy older women would traipse to Dr Robert Dalrymple’s Consulting Rooms displaying an array of…
