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Perfume de Gardenias : a delicious black comedy about funerals

  Whether this post-pandemic time is suitable for this rather wonderful black comedy that takes aim at the hypocrisy of funerals, seemed irrelevant. This deliciously funny satire is after all the work of Macha Colón, a character created by the artist Gisela Rosario Ramos and inspired by the iconic actor and drag queen Divine. In … Continue reading

Person to Person

Person to Person is an odd New York centric dramedy about a random group of locals whose lives in this one single day loosely overlap.  They are small people whose real common thread is that they all make a great deal out of what boils down to being very little indeed. There is bearded Benny … Continue reading

Pervert Park

Scandinavian filmmaking couple Frida & Lasse Barkfors made a somewhat bizarre choice for this, their debut documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival where it won a Special Jury Award.  They opted to paint a very humanized picture of a halfway house for convicted sex offenders in Florida.  Surprisingly they achieved it quite perfectly with … Continue reading

Peter and John

Peter and John, a period costume drama set in Nantucket in I827, is loosely based on a novel by the 19th Century French author Guy de Maupassant. It’s an odd time in the island’s history as the Civil War has just ended and many of the residents are now struggling financially since the whaling industry … Continue reading

Peter And The Farm

Peter Dunning is an angry cantankerous old man.  68 years old, abandoned by his wife and adult children ‘they will not pick up the phone if I call,’ he lives alone working his 187 acre farm in rural Vermont.  He is full of a mixture of bitterness and regret, that is occasionally peppered with his … Continue reading

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