Sundance
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Appropriate Behaviour
For Shirin, a twenty-something-year-old angst ridden fashionable Brooklynite, life is mess. We don’t need to feel sorry for her, as she does that so well herself. She is reluctantly breaking up with Maxine her girlfriend and leaving the home they shared with little more than a strapon dildo. She is moving into a shabby squalid…
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Jamie Marks is Dead
Somewhere in upstate New York teenage Gracie is on the banks of a river where she is rooting out rocks for her collection when she discovers the half naked body of one of the boys from her school. The corpse is Jamie Marks a quiet nerdy boy who had been the butt of other kids…
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Mr X @ Sundance
Auteur is a much misappropriated word in cinema in the same way designer is in fashion, but the idiosyncratic extraordinary Leos Carax is one filmmaker who so unreservedly deserves the accolade. This new affectionate tribute to him examines why since his first film at the tender age of 24 ‘Boy Meets Girl’ won him an Award…
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The Foxy Merkins
Margaret is a big lumpy mess. She’s arrived in Manhattan and is homeless and jobless and has decided to resort to being a hooker to make ends meet. The trouble is that this overweight unkempt lesbian seems to have little experience in sexual matters let alone trying to make a living from providing a service…
