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Posts tagged ‘Drama’

Think Of Me (2011)

Directed by: Bryan Wizemann

4 stars

The state of your car says a lot about you in the movies.  In Think Of Me, Alice’s car is metonymically related to her life and, as the movie opens, her car won’t start.   Read more

Good Bye (2011)
(Bé Omid É)

Directed by: Mohammad Rasoulof

4 stars

“When you feel like a foreigner in your own country, it’s better to be a foreigner in a foreign country” says Noora (Leila Zare), a human rights lawyer whose licence to practice has been suspended, while her husband (a newspaper publisher whose newspaper has been shut down) is on the run from the police.  She wants to leave Iran, and she’s been advised to get pregnant and give birth while abroad.  But her husband is reluctant to leave, and now she fears her baby may be born with Down’s syndrome. Read more

Page Eight (2011)

Directed by: David Hare

3 stars

Written and directed by David Hare, Page Eight is a TV movie that aspires to cinematic release (it’s being shown at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, despite having already gone out on terrestrial TV in Britain). Read more