An Oscar nominee and Golden Lion winner, this three part film starts with a monk escorting an Albanian girl through a gorgeous Macedonian setting, then moves to London, where an exile lives, and finally returns to a divided Balkan village where gun touting Macedonian and Albanian ethnics fan their mutual hatred. The human tragedy of war contrasts with a stunning landscape. Beautiful, moving, superb.
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BLACK SNAKE MOAN (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
Christina Ricci turns all sexy and slutty and this little temptress is the devil for embittered bluesman, yep he woke up this morning, Lazarus, who needs to pray ter god as he chains her near naked body to the radiator in order to save her soul. This is a strange mix of steam, religion and human values as individuals work together to help heal each other's damaged psyches. An up-lifting tribute to human values, with a great blues soundtrack, in this 'Southern Gothic' adaptation of George Eliot's
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PERSEPOLIS (2008)
Certification12 Our Rating
A wonderful tale of a girl's passage from childhood to adulthood, a time that coincided with the overthrow of the Shah of Iran and his replacement by the tyranny of a fundamentalist theocracy.
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THE PAINTED VEIL (2006)
Certification12 Our Rating
Flighty upper class Londoner Kitty is desperate to escape her repressive family life and accepts the marriage proposal of uptight Shanghai based bacteriologist Walter. Quickly bored she instigates her husband's hatred by having an affair with promiscuous diplomat Charlie and, as if in revenge, Walter drags her off to work in a mountainous cholera infected province in rural China. Some couples grew apart, some together....highly recommended.
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TRUE BLOOD SEASON 2 DISC 1 (2009)
Certification18 Our Rating
Episode 1; Nothing But Blood; a mutilated body is found in Inspector Bellefleur's car, Jessica's living in Bill's house, Tara's getting on with Eggs, Jason's found God and Lafayette's chained up.
Episode 2; Keep This Party Going; Jessica visits her family, Maryann visits Merlotte's, where everyone starts dancing, and Lafayette fails in an escape bid.
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WITNESS (1985)
Certification15 Our Rating
The Amish are a puritanical sect whose life in Pennsylvania has remained unchanged since the 18th Century, but when an Amish boy witnesses a murder, cynical big city cop John Book (Ford) investigates the case and, finding his own life endangered, is forced to hot-foot it to their ranch with the bad guys in pursuit. Ford falls in love with the boy's mother (McGillis), and observes the distance between the messy world he leaves behind and the cloistered one in which he takes refuge. Powerful, assu
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