The Red Virgin (La virgen roja), based on the true story of Spanish prodigy Hildegart Rodríguez, tells a story of genius and madness. It is directed by Paula Ortiz, who made this retelling into an artistic film of creation and […]
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Let Go (Släpp taget) brings a melancholy family relationship story to Netflix. This Swedish drama stars Josephine Bornebusch as Stella. Josephine Bornebusch also wrote and directed the film. It’s a finely wrought tale of a family in crisis.
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The Children’s Train (Il treno dei bambini) tells how parents in poverty stricken Naples in 1946 joined a movement to send their children north to areas where people who survived the war on farms had more food and shelter to
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Touch is a love story that covers continents and decades. It’s a sweet and heartwarming story, but slow moving and long. There are plenty of two hour movies out there that go by fast, but this one dragged. Nevertheless it
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Badhaai Do comes from India. It the story of a lavender marriage where a gay man and a lesbian decide to hide behind a marriage so their parents and society at large will think they are not queer. That’s them
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A German middle school teacher sets off a tense drama by secretly recording a theft in her school. The Teachers’ Lounge (Das Lehrerzimmer) shows how a well intentioned attempt to solve a problem can lead to a huge crack in
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Colors of Evil: Red (Kolory zla. Czerwien) is a police story that begins with the murder of a young woman found on a beach. Her lips were cut off and she was abused in various ways. The police officer who
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The Taste of Things (La passion de Dodin Bouffant) is the kind of film that makes a food lover’s mouth water. The food and the preparation of the food is everything in this film by Anh Hung Tran. The cook
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The Persian Version, written and directed by Maryam Keshavarz, tells the story of Leila and her Iranian-American family. Especially important are her mother and grandmother. Leila speaks directly to the viewers in 4th wall breaking voice overs throughout the entire
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No Pressure (Nic na sile) on Netflix is a Polish film. It’s basically a silly plot involving folksy country types, but manages to be enjoyable. A grandmother concocts a scheme to get her granddaughter – a chef in the city
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