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Japanese story
First impressions of this Australian film are that the story and characters are slight and the plot predictable. The first part is in the tradition of quirky Australian comedies (as was Sue Brooks’ previous film about elderly lawn bowlers, Road to Nhill). Whether audiences will wait for the second part of the film is a moot question - the (...) -
Carandiru
We are impressed before the film starts to know that the book which has been adapted for the screen was a Brazilian best-seller, that it brought to hundreds of thousands of readers, devastating information and images about Brazilian goals and the stories of the inmates. Author, Drauzio Varella, spent years treating prisoners in Carandiru. The (...) -
Dogville
Lars Von Trier seems fascinated by moral and religious themes. So much of his imagery and his references are biblical. It has been easy to see his persecuted woman, Emily Watson in Breaking the Waves and Bjork in Dancer in the Dark, as martyrs, whose sufferings bring healing to men. Von Trier sets them up as redemptive Christ-figures. As we (...) -
Swimming pool
One reviewer made the snide remark that in this film, he remains at the shallow end of the pool. I wonder. Given the excellence of this two leading ladies and their skills in communicating contrasting characters and generations and his portrayal of a detective fiction writer who is observing everything for inclusion in her book, we are taken (...) -
Elephant
Gus Van Sant quotes the title of a British film of the late 80s by Alan clarke, Elephant, as the inspiration for his title : the challenge to notice social problems which are as large as an elephant in the living room. He also alludes to a Buddhist saying about identifying the parts and limbs of an elephant and assuming that you have (...)