Day: 19 February 2018
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Berlin 2018: Watch premiering titles online with Festival Scope
This year, for the very first time the Berlinale is offering a handpicked selection of films for special festival screenings online. This joint project with online digital platform Festival Scope is intended to reach Berlinale fans who are unable to attend the festival in person. The special festival programming offer serves to acknowledge the interest…
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DVD Review: The Housemaid
★★☆☆☆ In the midst of the First Indochina War in Vietnam, a young woman, Linh (Kate Nhung), arrives at a French colonial rubber plantation in search of work. The plantation owner, Captain Sebastien Laurent (Jean Michel Richaud) seems kindly, but it’s not long before the supernatural secrets of the plantation begin to manifest. On its…
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DVD Review: The Colour of Pomegranates
★★★★☆ A remastered re-release of Soviet film director and artist Sergei Parajanov’s The Colour of Pomegranates, courtesy of specialist distributors Second Sight, is an opportunity to rediscover a unique cinematic experience. Cinema has not treated poetry particularly well. Either we get faithful reproductions of inciting incidents, or biopics dosed with out of focus shots of…
