This gentle warm delightful comedy is about a well-adjusted, happy, loving and quite devoted family. The two teenage children have reached that awkward stage when they start questioning things, in this case, to find out who their biological father is. It just so happens that their two parents are a lesbian couple, but that aside, … Continue reading
Award-winning Russian director Andrey Zvagaintsev’s new epic movie opens to the dramatic tones of a Phillip Glass prelude as the camera scans over the desolate sight of a remote small fishing community that looks like it may have seen better times. It is on the Kola Peninsula in northern Russia and its almost deserted coastline … Continue reading
Tragedy strikes in the first few minutes of the movie when Simon a six grader whose turn it is to take the milk cartons into the empty school classroom before the lesson begins is confronted with the sight of his teacher who has just hung herself from the ceiling. What follows is not the story … Continue reading
This sobering tale of five orphaned adolescent Turkish girl starts on a high note as they are having fun playing on the beach with their male classmates celebrating that the school term has just ended and the summer break is about to start. Their euphoria quickly disappears when they get home and are confronted by their … Continue reading
In the opening scene we see Omar scaling the impossible high wall that the Occupying Forces have erected that not just separates Palestinians from Jews, but also Palestinians from each other. He is going to meet up with his best friends Tarak and Amjad to plan their first ever terrorist activity. Tarak mentions a Brigade … Continue reading