Month: August 2013
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DVD Review: ‘The Sun in a Net’
★★★★☆ Centring on one long, hot summer in the lives of two Bratislavan youths as they fall in and out of love, The Sun in a Net (1963) is a sensual, intimate tale of young romance and family dysfunction, set against the backdrop of an eclipse. A triumph of the Czech New Wave, Štefan Uher’s…
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DVD Review: ‘Gatekeepers’
★★★★☆ Dror Moreh’s Oscar-nominated debut is one of the best documentaries to emerge so far this year. Presenting a troubling vision of Israeli counter-terrorism, The Gatekeepers (2013) excels in its political rigour and clear-eyed pessimism. It’s a deceptively simple set up, with the men who headed Israel’s intelligence operations for much of the second half…
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