La piel que habito 7 Nov 2012 Director: Pedro Almodovar Spain 2011 117 min An occasionally disturbing – but nonetheless stunning – film, The Skin I Live In revisits many themes familiar from earlier Almodovar works: identity, revenge, and overwhelmingly powerful emotions. Running throughout is the idea of dark secrets and revelation. Plastic surgeon Robert… Continue reading The Skin I Live In
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The Debt
10 Oct 2012 Director: John Madden USA 2010 113 min This gripping thriller uses a clever time-shifting technique to keep the audience wondering right until the end just how the events of the past might come to revisit themselves upon the present. The story focuses on a Mossad mission in 1966, when three agents tracked… Continue reading The Debt
Even The Rain
También la lluvia 5 Dec 2012 Director: Iciar Bollain Spain 2010 103 mins The exploitation of South American natives by Christopher Columbus is the starting point of this thoughtful and intelligent Spanish film-within-a-film-within-a-film. A film crew arrives in Bolivia to tell the story of the early Spanish colonists and their impact on the New World,… Continue reading Even The Rain
The Lady
21 Nov 2012 Director: Luc Besson France, UK 2011 132 min Action thriller veteran Luc Besson may not be the obvious choice of director for the story of Aung San Suu Kyi (played with understated panache by Michelle Yeoh), the woman at the core of Burma’s democracy movement. Nonetheless the Frenchman brings a deft touch… Continue reading The Lady
Monsieur Lazhar
19 Dec 2012 Director: Philippe Falardeau Canada 2011 94 min The ‘inspirational teacher’ movie has become something of a cliché in recent years, but this Oscar nominated film from Canada avoids the usual sentiment and predictability in favour of a darker and ultimately more satisfying approach.Elderly Algerian immigrant Lazhar (the impressive Mohamed Fellag) is hired… Continue reading Monsieur Lazhar
Pauline & Paulette
Feb 18 2004 Belgium, France, Netherlands 2001 78 min Director: Lieven Debrauwer Martha, the senior of four elderly sisters, looks after the child-like Pauline. Pauline loves flowers and to run errands for her sister Paulette who runs a fabric shop in the town. When Martha suddenly dies, neither Paulette nor the youngest sister Cecile, who… Continue reading Pauline & Paulette
Read My Lips
Sur mes Lévres Mar 3 2004 Director: Jacques Audiard France 2001 118 min Carla is the under appreciated long-term secretary of a property firm. She is hard working, always the first to arrive and the last to leave and all this while suffering from a hearing defect. She persuades her employers to get her an… Continue reading Read My Lips
Colour of Paradise
Rang-e Khoda Director: Majid Majidi 8 Oct 2003 Iran 1999 90 min Mohammad is a boy at Tehran’s institute for the blind. Long after the other children have been collected for their summer vacation, Mohammad waits for his father while he rescues a baby bird from a cat and returns it to its mother. When… Continue reading Colour of Paradise
Rabbit Proof Fence
24 Sept 2003 Director: Phillip Noyce Australia 2002 94 min Set in Western Australia in 1931. Molly, Daisy and Grace are snatched from their mothers’ arms and taken a thousand miles away as part of official government policy to train as domestic servants and to integrate them into white society. Lead by Molly, they escape,… Continue reading Rabbit Proof Fence
City of God
Cidade de Deus Oct 22 2003 Brazil, France, USA 2002 130 min Directors: Katia Lund & Fernando Meirelles This is the critically acclaimed story of gang violence in Rio de Janerio. Cidade de Deus (City of God) is a poor housing project built in the 60’s, which became one of the most dangerous places in… Continue reading City of God