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    My Father, The Bride : a Japanese tale about being a Family

      Toka (Honoka Matsumoto) is an unhappy young career woman in Tokyo who meets her estranged husband once a week even though they seem to have very little common.  They only married three years ago and she is too ashamed to share the news of its failure with family. As it is the 3rd year … Continue reading

    My Fiona: Suicide brings more questions than answers 

      Is there ever a good time to sit down and watch a movie whose description begins with the words “Following the death of her best friend…”? Turns out there is. For us it was on a beautiful, blue sky Saturday morning in an empty London after a few weeks of self-distancing. We were really … Continue reading

    Naked As We Came

    Laura and her younger brother Elliot are making a mad dash to their family home in New England after they have received an urgent phone call telling then that Lilly their terminally ill mother had just checked herself out of the hospital the day before. As they argue on the drive up there from Manhattan, … Continue reading

    Nevrland : a post-gay coming of age story

      17 year old Jakob (Simon Frühwirth ) has just graduated high school and as it is the summer break his single-parent rather subdued father fixes him up with a  temporary job at the abattoir he word at in town.  The pair of them live in a isolated house in the country with Jacob’s elderly … Continue reading

    NIGHT ACROSS THE STREET

      Chilean Raul Rutz was a prolific experimental filmmaker who worked mainly in France, and is probably best known to US audiences for movies such as ‘Mysteries of Lisbon’ and ‘Marcel Proust’s Time Regained’.   This is his very last film made when he was dying and I think is best described as his personal … Continue reading

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