Tag: foreign films
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Review: Sunday’s Illness (La enfermedad del domingo)
Sunday’s Illness (La enfermedad del domingo) is a Spanish film currently streaming on Netflix. It’s the exquisitely beautiful and exquisitely painful story of a woman who searches out her mother 30 years after her mother abandoned her.
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Review: To Each, Her Own (Les goûts et les couleurs)
To Each, Her Own (Les goûts et les couleurs) is a French film now on Netflix. I found the main character irritating in numerous ways, but stuck with it to the end to see what she would finally do. What she finally did was irritating, too.
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Review: Thi Mai (Thi Mai, rumbo a Vietnam)
Thi Mai, rumbo a Vietnam comes from Spain. It’s a lighthearted story about an trip to Vietnam for an adoption.
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Review: Day of the Flowers
Day of the Flowers is a Scottish production about two sisters who go to Cuba to scatter their father’s ashes. It was released in 2012 and recently made its way to streaming services.
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Review: I Am Not an Easy Man (Je ne suis pas un homme facile)
I Am Not an Easy Man (Je ne suis pas un homme facile) is a French comedy that flips the patriarchy on its head and lands one very confused fellow in a world that seems upside down to him.
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Watch This: Trailer for Ava
Ava is a coming of age story from Sadaf Foroughi, an Iranian born, Montreal based filmmaker. It looks like a gorgeous film.
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Review: From the Land of the Moon (Mal de Pierres)
From the Land of the Moon (Mal de Pierres) is the story of Gabrielle (Marion Cotillard), a passionate romantic living in a mundane world. It’s in French with English subtitles.
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Review: On Body and Soul
On Body and Soul (Teströl és lélekröl) is a Hungarian film. It is one of the nominees for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film this year. The film is a strange and almost poetic love story. It’s laced with ethereal beauty and bloody gore.
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Review: My Happy Family (Chemi Bednieri Ojakhi)
My Happy Family (Chemi Bednieri Ojakhi) is a Georgian language film from writer and director Nana Ekvtimishvili about a woman who just wants to be left alone by her family.
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Review: Dalida, biopic about the French Egyptian-Italian singer and actress
Dalida is based on the life of Iolanda Gigliotti, better known as Dalida, a world famous singer for over 30 years. She died in 1987 after a career in which she received more than 90 gold records. She sold 140 million albums and singles worldwide and recorded songs in 10 languages.