Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things change dramatically with the unheralded arrival of Cousin Dmitri from Moscow, who charms the women and little Nadia with his games and pianistic bravura. For most of its running time, the film seems to follow suit: it's a placid, languorous country-house comedy far removed from the realities of the Stalinist te
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DIE MARQUISE VON O (1976)
CertificationPG Our Rating
A highly acclaimed costume drama that proves slightly different from Rohmer's more contemporary work. Typical of French films set in the 19th Century it is an examination of the moral corruption and hypocrisy that formulated the mores of the time. Rohmer's direction adds sparkle as always.
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LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL (1998)
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Roberto Benigni stars and directs this award littered Chaplinesque comic fable. In 1930s Italy, a carefree Jewish book keeper named Guido starts a fairy tale life by courting and marrying a lovely woman from a nearby city. Guido and his wife have a son and live happily together until the occupation of Italy by German forces. In an attempt to help his son survive the horrors of a Jewish Concentration Camp, Guido, an imaginative man, turns to humour, pretending that the Holocaust is a game and tha
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