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Cronica de una Fuga (English Corner)
This film is both sombre and gruelling to watch. The screenplay is based on a book by the central character, Claudio Tamburrini, a young footballer whose mother and sister are questioned cruelly because of false information from a tortured informer and who is abducted, interrogated, tortured and imprisoned with cruelty and barbarity. The (…) -
Juventude em marcha (English Corner)
This is a work of cinema art. However, art does not have the same impact on all audiences. For those whose sensibility leads them to stay in the sensing present, appreciating what is up there on the screen, this film could be a rewarding contemplation of characters speaking their minds and their lives. For those of a more intuitive sensibility, (…) -
Indigènes (English Corner)
Anyone who has experienced a European colonial past will resonate with this war film and its message. It is an eye-opening and memory-jogging tale of how a colonial power took it for granted that it was superior to other peoples and that they could use them in patriotic defence of the motherland. Indigenes shows considerable skills in (…) -
You am I (English Corner)
You have a middle-aged architect who drops out and builds his own house high in the trees of a forest. Thoreau-like, he is a hermit in nature. You have a group of twenty-somethings who climb a cliff, move into a holiday house and rowdily (and lengthily) celebrate a birthday - while the host is writing and telling a story about a group who (…) -
United 93 (English Corner)
It is almost five years since the hijacking of the American commercial planes on September 11th 2001, the crashes into the twin towers in New York and into the Pentagon in Washington DC. The fourth plane was United 93, from Newark to San Francisco. The passengers overcame the hijackers but were not able to save the plane which crashed in the (…)