French-Galician filmmaker Oliver Laxe calls his topical and beautifully understated new film a “dry” – as in no tears – “melodrama” and populates his setting, the mist-filled, Ancares mountains in nor ...
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Apr 17, 2020
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VIVARIUM (from March 27, 2020) Cert 15, 98 mins. There are so many films specifically set in the suburbs, that “suburb” movies could be called a genre. Though very different in tone, style, characteri ...
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Apr 1, 2020
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HADEWIJCH (February 17, 2012) Cert 12A, 105 mins. The films of French writer/director Bruno Dumont (The Life of Jesus, Twentynine Palms), tend to focus on the consequences of extreme behaviour and are ...
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Mar 29, 2020
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The Hunt (March 12, 2020) Cert 15, 90 mins. The genesis of Craig Zobel’s (Z for Zachariah, Compliance) controversial film The Hunt can be traced to two dates that are not in themselves particularly mo ...
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Mar 20, 2020
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