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Polina

This new French feature film co-directed by world-renowned choreographer Angelin Preljoçaj along with screenwriter Valérie Müller is an adaption of Bastien Vivès novel about a young girl pursuing her dreams and it very firmly makes the dancing far more important than the actual plot itself.  This is more of an observation than a criticism and it is  a move … Continue reading

POPULAIRE

Newbie French writer/director Régis Roinsard plays homage to the great Hollywood 1950’s romantic comedies with this delightful sugary fluffy movie.  A perfect period piece that says that not only can fairy tales come true (eventually) but they look and sound so much better in fabulous retro sets, stunning costumes, and a rip roaring sentimentalised score. … Continue reading

PORFIRIO

In 2005 Porfirio Ramirez Aldana’s name was splashed across the headlines and on all the television broadcasts in Colombia for his audacious and foolhardy criminal act.  What made it even more sensational was the fact he was a paraplegic in a wheelchair at the time. In Alejandro Landes’s extraordinary new film the details of the … Continue reading

POTICHE

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

PRAIRIE LOVE

A man we only know as ‘The Vagrant’ is driving his beaten up wreck of a station wagon across North Dakota’s frozen tundra he’s dressed head to toe in fur lined clothes that we can hardly make out his face. He chances upon a broken down truck in the middle of nowhere and its owner … Continue reading

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