Category: Reviews
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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