Monthly Archives: February 2012

Claudia Pandolfi & Michela Cescon in “Quando la Notte” [2011 Italy]

The romantic drama “Quando la Notte” [Eng. Title: When the Night] is yet another woman’s film by Cristina Comencini (La Bestia nel Cuore).
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Set in a ski resort among the Italian Alps, the main focus of the film seems to … Continue reading

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Aina Clotet in “Elisa K” [2010 Spain]

Before “Elisa K”, I’d seen only one other film of veteran Catalan writer-director Jordi Cadena (from the ‘destape’ years, starring a young Ana Belén). For this film however, the directorial credits are shared with Judith Colell whose filmography I’m … Continue reading

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Carice van Houten & co in “Komt een vrouw bij de dokter” BR720 [Netherlands 2009]

Reinout Oerlemans’ romantic drama, “Komt een vrouw bij de dokter – Een ode aan de liefde” [Eng. Title: A Woman Goes to the Doctor – An Ode to Love, aka Stricken] is your typical mainstream film that touches on … Continue reading

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Antigoni Amanitou from Nikos Koundouros’ “1922” [Greece 1978]

In “1922”, Nikos Koundouros recreates events from the little known Greek genocide towards the end of the Greco-Turkish war of 1919-1922 where, within the single province of Anatolia alone (present day Turkey), about a third of a million civilian Greeks … Continue reading

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Silvia Navarro & Diana García in “Labios Rojos” [2011 Mexico]

Rafael Lara’s “Labios Rojos” [Eng. Title: Red Lips] is your stereotypical mainstream comedy about marital woes (predominantly sexual) where the characters are usually caricatures and ridden with cliché. This film might as well have been churned out twenty years … Continue reading

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