REVIEW: Antoinette in the Cévennes
In Caroline Vignal’s French comedy, Antoinette in the Cévennes (2020), our heroine Antoinette...
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The French Film Festival and “De Gaulle”
Just prior to going in to see The Man Who Sold His Skin at the 2021 Alliance Française French Film...
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FILM REVIEW: “Final Set” lobs the ball in your court
From the opening frame, when a ball is tossed high over-head for a serve and freezes in mid-air,...
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Filming on the Fringe – West End’s time with Wendy Rogers
The thing that struck me sitting out the back at Avid Reader early in 2020 watching the...
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Film Review: In the Name of the Land
In the Name of the Land Dir. Edward Bergeon. France. 2019. 103mins As well as the five family...
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A Hidden Life: Terrence Malick’s Resplendent Return to Scripted Narrative
Rating: 8/10 This story is not told in the film but comes from the real life of the film’s...
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“All That Jazz”, then and now
A famous New York theater director and choreographer, Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider) juggles the...
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Pain and Glory make the story
In Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film, ageing Spanish film director Salvador Mallo (Antonio Banderas)...
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Memento Stella is a film about you
The title of Takashi Makino’s latest film is the original phrase he coined to remind himself of...
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The Dead Don’t Die makes us appreciate the details
In a small American town, two police officers investigate the disappearance of a chicken. Thus...
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‘Birds of Passage’ the true (in the Hollywood sense) story of Colombian marijuana trade
“We’ve lost the soul, nothing protects us anymore.” From the director of Oscar nominated Embrace...
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Film Review: ‘Dogman’ Works Hard to Maintain its Humanity
The film opens on a snarling pit-bull in a cold, blue room. A timid Marcello (Marcello Fonte)...
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