Based on a script by the late great Jacques Tati the French comic genius and directed by Sylvain Chomet (‘The Triplets of Belleville’) one knew that this film would have to be good. And probably even much better than that. And it was, and more. The story involves a sad lanky French magician named Tatischeff … Continue reading
Marcel Lévesque has been the Salesmen on the Month for the past 16 years in a small car dealership in a backwater town in Quebec where it never ever seems to stop snowing. Marcel is past retirement age but whilst he is still fit and anxious to keep working, the town that was totally dependent … Continue reading
The thing I really loved the most about this movie was the title, which is actually a wonderful sentiment that I never really wanted to believe in, but now I am in my dotage I’ll admit has more than a smidgen of truth to it. James is the teenager who is at the receiving end … Continue reading
The section of Brooklyn when young Daud lives with his family is like a mini Israel except the ’wall’ that divides the Jewish and Moslem communities is not physically visible. He’s a very serious introspective 12-year-old boy and as the son of the local Imam reads his Koran religiously and even helps teach it to … Continue reading
Ruben is a solitary man well suited to the interminable loneliness of being a long-distance truck driver. In the opening minutes of the film we see him setting off on a journey from Paraguay back to Argentina with his long trailer loaded with logs and seemingly content to settle into his rigid regime of his … Continue reading