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Changeling (English Corner)
Clint Eastwood turns 78, May 2008. His films made during his 70s have been impressive and award-winning. There will be a positive response to The Exchange. Based on actual characters, including the mother at the centre of an abduction and the mayor of Los Angeles, the Police Chief, police captains, detectives, prominent lawyers, a killer (…) -
De Ofrivilliga (English Corner)
We do all kinds of involuntary actions every day. We even make ‘decisions’ which are involuntary. This is the idea behind this comic/serious film about different groups of ordinary people. The film is like a jigsaw although most of the initial stories are unrelated. They are simply patterned for audiences to respond and then a pause for (…) -
Sanguepazzo (English Corner)
While running for two and a half hours, this is a continually absorbing film which has the sub-title, An Italian Story. Director Marco Tullio Giordana had been trying to make this film for more than two decades but, after his success with The Best of Youth, he was able to raise the money. It is a large project. During the course of the (…) -
Le silence de Lorna (English Corner)
The Dardennes Brothers make a film every three years, so this is their fourth in a decade, two of which Rosetta and L’Enfant won the Cannes Palme d’Or and the other, Le Fils, was very well received. The previous films were full of movement, the camera following the characters around at very close range. This time the camera remains still for (…) -
La vie moderne (English Corner)
Raymond Depardon is a celebrated French journalist and photographer. He became a documentary maker in the 1990s. Since that time he has worked in partnership with Claudine Nougaret to produce documentaries about people from the French countryside. Born on a farm himself, Depardon decided to go into the mountains he had been visiting for (…)