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a cinephile's take on indie and arthouse movies


GESHER

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Sometimes I sit through excruciatingly painful boring movies so that you don’t have too.  To be totally honest I will ‘fess up that I don’t do this deliberately, but it’s just the downside of trying to want to push the envelope with my viewing choices. The blurb from Miami International Film Fest Schedule ‘a portrait … Continue reading



IMELDA

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Sometimes even obsessed cine-philes let a wee gem slip past them, and this is one from 2004 that I was so thrilled to catch up with. This Sundance award winning doc. about the infamous former First Lady of the Philippines is a sheer delight and shows what a consummate actor Imelda Marcos is.  She believed … Continue reading



IN A BETTER WORLD

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I thought I had experienced everything I could in a movie theater already, that is until last night.  How often would I ever get to sit behind (not literally) the film’s director as she clutches the Oscar that tonight’s movie won her? ‘She’ is of course the renowned Danish filmmaker Susanna Bier, and the occasion … Continue reading



CHICO AND RITA

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To select a Animated Movie for the Opening Night Gala of an International Film Festival is a brave decision, and in Miami it almost worked.  The movie was Chico & Rita, a delightful narrative that traced the whole incredible culture of Cuban music over the past 60 years and the major influences it had on … Continue reading



POTICHE

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Any new movie from Francois Ozon, one of my favorite directors, is something that I always eagerly anticipate.  And true to form his latest one that I have just watched at the Miami Film Festival was classic Ozon, and a real treat. Set in 1977 it’s the story of Suzanne a sadly put-upon trophy wife … Continue reading



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