Lě Bảo turns his attention to one of the senses with his sophomore festival film Hearing (Thính giác). Although even in a film about sound, it has quiet moments as it observes Nimh (Quốc Tuấn). It shows him playing drums, or his Mother (Ngọc Tản) making some dinner for herself and him. Sometimes, she sings. […]
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Musician and playwright Tomson Highway brings his hand from his brain to his heart. “[English] comes from [the brain], [Cree] comes from [the heart],” which, sure, feels reductive. But I know less languages than Highway, who knows at least a dozen languages, maybe. Tomson Highway: Permanent Astonishment competently jumps between different timelines, which is necessary. […]
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“When Cortes landed in Mexico” is a sentence I never want to hear on dates, not that I date. Cortes is the story that Jack (KJ Apa) tells Jillian (Isabel May), and for some reason, that works. Ex writer yuppie Jack’s best friend Johnny (Archie Renaux), a ‘writer’, is with his ex Brooke (Emma Laird). […]
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Director Éric Besnard tackles Jean Valjean, a character (Grégory Gadebois) that appears in enough adaptations of Les Miserables. His imperfect yet fresh-ish take focuses on the book’s earlier chapters when he’s fresh out of forced labour. Travelling throughout France by foot, he hears constant rejection – “there is nothing for you here,” not even food. […]
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Life-saving resources appear in different forms, and the Maison des Femmes has a few of those resources. A French institution with a Parisian home base, they have art therapy for women from all walks of life surviving abuse. They have conventional therapy where women of all racial backgrounds can talk about what they’ve been through. […]
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Congo Boy, from filmmaker Rafiki Fariala, tells the story of its titular protagonist, Robert (Bradley Fiomona Dembeasset), a teenage Congolese refugee living in the Central African Republic. Some nights, he sneaks into CAR’s nightclubs, hoping for a chance to perform as a rapper/ singer. But during the daytime, he’s lining up to get UNHCR benefits. […]
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We should all be able to go out on our own terms… After a successful festival run, Wild Horse Nine is finally landing in theatres for the general public and it doesn’t disappoint as writer/director Martin McDonagh keeps his trade mark acerbic wit while giving us something filled with heart that just might be the […]
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Harry Lehman (John Turturro) rides the subway back to the Bronx when Detective Warren (Giancarlo Esposito) sits beside him. “Seen him recently,” Warren asks, and Harry says no, keeping his secrets and his old habits to himself. Harry, the titular antihero in Noah Segan’s The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, finds himself a mark. […]
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Milcho Manchevski’s Sister Brother Manhole Cover depicts a, well, brother and sister Malina and Viktor (Sara Klimoska, Filip Trajkovikj). Malina does everything for Viktor, her big brother who, despite his special needs, wants to play football like his idol Ronaldo. They murder Malina’s rapist, steal his car, and sell that car to buyer ‘Brad Pitt’. […]
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& Sons gives the impression that it’s going to be a straight up family drama and sure, it’s that, so I’ll discuss why it’s more than a family drama by starting with a broken family in England. Andy (Noah Jupe) gets attention in school because of his father, Andrew (Bill Nighy), an award winning novelist. […]
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