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Afterschool (English Corner)
An accomplished film by 24 year old Antonio Campos who had made a number of short films, including Buy Me Now, which received some international commercial release. This first feature film is much more ambitious. We are in a privileged school (and the director draws on his own experience – and includes his own preoccupations in his central (…) -
Gomorra (English Corner)
This is not the most lucid of films. We admire the sincerity and courage that has gone into the making of it, the craft and the skill in working with many non-professional performers. However, with the decision to take five stories out of the many in Roberto Saviano’s 2006 best-seller (translated into 33 languages) and to intercut them, this (…) -
Serbis (English Corner)
Just another day in a struggling neighbourhood of Manila – or is it ? Is this yet another Filipino look at squalid surroundings and squalid aspects of life in these surroundings showing both a financial poverty and a spiritual poverty ? Yes, but presented by Brillante Mendoza who has become a rising director in recent years, ranging from gay (…) -
The Chaser (English Corner)
First it was Hong Kong, then Korea which turned out (churned out) efficient, exciting and well-crafted crime and police thrillers. Here is another Korean one considered sufficiently good to merit a special out of competition screening in Cannes. This one has some interesting differences. A vicious serial killer has been killing women around (…) -
Vicky Christina Barcelona (English Corner)
Towards the end of Woody Allen’s comedy of manners and morals (and lack of them), Vicki (Rebeccah Hall) tells Juan Antonio (Javier Bardem) that Judy (Patricia Clarkson), the friend in whom she confided her own misgivings about her marriage was really working out her own problems. Earlier Judy had confided in Vicky, remarking that the way she (…)