An acclaimed and gloriously visual epic that follows the life of Avik, a young half-Eskimo boy, in his search for love and identity. It takes him across continents, through the hell of war, and into a painful reunion with Aubertine, his childhood sweet-heart. Moving, beautiful and superbly filmed.
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MARGARET'S MUSEUM (1997)
Certification15 Our Rating
Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia; Helena "Bodice-ripper" Carter sheds her genteel image to play the foul-mouthed local outcast in a mining town where male underground death is routine. Determined to avoid the fate of being married to death she changes her tune when she meets the charming Neil. But his death leads to her mental breakdown and her creation of a gruesome museum as a memoir to all those who've died in pit accidents. Macabre and wonderful.
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PLENTY (1985)
Certification15 Our Rating
David Hare's brilliant screenplay is both a comment on the desperate results of a casual sexual encounter, the passion of a moment snatched in war-time France - the intensity of which can never be matched again, and a commentary on the post war decline of Britian. A brilliant movie!
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THE NIGHT PORTER (1973)
Certification18 Our Rating
An ex-SS officer, now a hotel porter, meets by chance a young woman who was previously his prisoner in a concentration camp. Unwillingly drawn together again they resume their sado-masochistic relationship. A compelling, though morally ambiguous, study in dominance and submission.
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