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Monthly Archives: August 2009
FILM REVIEW: Penelope Cruz in Almodovar’s ‘Broken Embraces’
By Ray Bennett LONDON – Aside from the fact that one is a genuine film artist while the other is an annoying twerp, the difference between the sublime Pedro Almodovar and the ridiculous Quentin Tarantino can be seen in their … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Reviews
Tagged 'Broken Embraces', 'Los Abrazos Rotos', Alberto Iglesias, Festival de Cannes, Pathe, Pedro Almodovar, Penelope Cruz, Quentin Tarantino, Warner Bros.
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LOCARNO FILM REVIEW: ‘Under Bauern: Saviors of the Night’
By Ray Bennett LOCARNO, Switzerland – German cinema’s growing number of films willing to address topics relating to World War II has a fine addition in Ludi Boeken’s “Under Bauern: Saviors of the Night”, which tells of farmers — unter … Continue reading
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Tagged 'Unter Bauern: Saviors of the Night', Locarno International Film Festival, Ludi Boeken, Martin Horn, Veronica Ferres
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LOCARNO FILM REVIEW: Frederic Mermoud’s ‘Partners’
By Ray Bennett LOCARNO, Switzerland – Swiss director Frederic Mermoud’s “Partners” is a police procedural with sex that deals with two sets of couples on both sides of the law involved in the murder of a male prostitute. The provocative … Continue reading
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Tagged 'Complices', 'Partners', Frederic Mermoud, Locarno International Film Festival
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LOCARNO FILM REVIEW: Urszula Antoniak’s ‘Nothing Personal’
By Ray Bennett LOCARNO, Switzerland – Holland-based Polish director Urszula Antoniak’s “Nothing Personal” is an intensely personal and engrossing tale of a ferociously independent young woman’s involvement with a kind widower in a remote part of Ireland. Lotte Verbeek (pictured) … Continue reading
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Tagged 'Nothing Personal', Locarno International Film Festival, Lotte Verbeek, Stephen Rea, Urszula Antoniak
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LOCARNO FILM REVIEW: Sarah Leonor’s ‘A Real Life’
By Ray Bennett LOCARNO, Switzerland – Sarah Leonor’s “Au Voleur” (A Real Life), starring the late Guillaume Depardieu, is an odd little picture that runs along like a somewhat dull tale of petty criminals but in the last third becomes … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Locarno International Film Festival, Reviews
Tagged 'A Real Life', 'Au Voleur', Florence Loiret Caille, Guillaume Depardieu, Locarno International Film Festival, Sarah Leonor
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LOCARNO FILM REVIEW: Filippos Tsitos’s ‘Plato’s Academy’
By Ray Bennett LOCARNO, Switzerland – Intelligent, warm and very funny, Filippos Tsitos’s “Akadimia Platonos” (Plato’s Academy) is a small tale of a proudly nationalistic Greek man who discovers that he might actually be Albanian, a situation that causes trouble … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Locarno International Film Festival, Reviews
Tagged 'Akadimia Platonos', 'Plato's Academy', Antonis Kafetsopoulos, Filippos Tsito, Locarno International Film Festival
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LOCARNO FILM REVIEW: Xiaolu Guo’s ‘She, a Chinese’
By Ray Bennett LOCARNO, Switzerland – Chinese filmmaker Xiaolu Guo’s “She, a Chinese” is an absorbing character study of a young woman from rural China who makes her way to the big city and then to England in a journey … Continue reading
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Tagged 'She, a Chinese', Film 4, Huang Lu, Locarno International Film Festival, U.K. Film Council, Xiaolu Guo
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LOCARNO FILM REVIEW: ‘Julia’s Disappearance’
By Ray Bennett LOCARNO, Switzerland – Sophisticated and insightful, Christoph Schaub’s “Julia’s Disappearance” is a romantic comedy about getting older that should charm grownup audiences keen for some wry laughs without sentimentality. The film won the public award after its … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Locarno International Film Festival, Reviews
Tagged 'Giulias Verschwinden', 'Julia's Disappearance', Bruno Ganz, Christoph Schaub, Corinna Harfouch, Locarno International Film Festival, Martin Suter, Piazza Grande
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LOCARNO FILM REVIEW: Valerie Donzelli’s ‘The Queen of Hearts’
By Ray Bennett LOCARNO, Switzerland – “The Queen of Hearts” (La Reine des Pommes) is a frothy but lame Parisian sex farce about a young woman who cannot get over being dumped by her boyfriend and so sets out to … Continue reading
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Tagged 'La Reine des Pommes', 'The Queen of Hearts', Jeremie Elkaim, Locarno International Film Festival, Valerie Donzelli
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LOCARNO FILM REVIEW: Ho Yuhang’s ‘At the End of Daybreak’
By Ray Bennett LOCARNO, Switzerland – Malaysian director Ho Yuhang composes some arresting images in “At the End of Daybreak,” his film of two youngsters who discover that their society’s rules leave little room for youthful mistakes. A cautionary tale … Continue reading
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Tagged 'At the End of Daybreak', 'Sham Moh', Ho Yuang, Locarno International Film Festival
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