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Spring Awakening
5 stars – Awesome In the famous opening scene, Wendla begs her mother to tell her how children are made, but all explanation she receives sticks to the word ‘love’, with no further detail. The community of teenagers of the village is thirsty for freedom at the start of the love season.
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In Everglade Studio
5 stars – fierce and intense musical thriller It’s 1974 and Skye aims to be the new rock music (white) icon. She is recording with the keyboard player Baron, when the producer Clarke brings a new collaborator, the music arranger and singer Matilda. Including traits of Black music, he claims, will boost the sales. Not…
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The Ballad of Truman Capote
3 stars – black and white cameo There is pleasure in discovery, yet a greater pleasure comes from recognition. I don’t know who said this, but the second part is certainly the aesthetic criteria behind The Ballad of Truman Capote.
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Antonio!
5 stars – queering Shakespeare After spending all his money to conquer the love of Bassanio, Antonio becomes a pirate and sails from Venice to London, where he meets the most famous poet of the time. They fall in love, and Shakespeare uses Antonio’s stories in his plays. Antonio is not so happy about it…
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When We Died
3 stars – intense narrative Rachel is very much used to manipulating dead bodies. She’s been in the job for a while. Make them look as if they had just fallen asleep, disguising Death before the family sees the body. One day, though, it is different. The body of a man by whom she had…
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Bacon
5 stars – Magnificent Bacon is the story of two teenagers. Mark, an introvert, is new to the school, and doesn’t find it easy to make friends. Darren is bossy and mean, but an unbalanced connection is created between them. This is a story about growing out of adolescence, growing out of toxic love.
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Artist/Muse
4 stars – beautifully built Olivia is a model who poses for famous painters. After a fight with one of them, she meets Paul, a kind, unknown artist who offers her help and who would like to paint her. This is a fresh start for both of them, but their relationship soon becomes complicated.
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Green Bird
4 stars – New traditional tale A couple of twins has been separated at birth. Renzo is Italian and Mi Ho is Taiwanese (their mother, the queen, was polyamorous). A green bird secretly suggests to each of them to go to Monterotondo, but their meeting unleashes an uncontrollable series of events…
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And Then The Rodeo Burnt Down
5 stars – explosive A rodeo clown aspiring to become a cowboy is surprised by his shadow, who isn’t going to let go of him. So begins their funny story, full of energy, vitality and high spirits.
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Lady Dealer
4 stars – energetic downfall Charly is fine. She loves her job and she’s good at doing it. She wakes up late and waits for her customers’ calls. A power cut makes her day different from all the others. But she is fine.
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N.Ormes
4 stars – breathtaking acrobatics Two acrobats, and the difficulties of collaborating. A female and a male body: there is a chance that she can also have him climb on her and she can carry his weight. So, they try this chance.
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Lost in Translation
2 stars – slow-paced In the suspended space of a coma, a poet faces two instances of his subconscious mind. One is trying to help him find inspiration to write and getting to work, the other is suffering from his selfishness. More and more details about the protagonist emerge in this abstract setting.
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