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Review © Jane Freebury Rated PG, I hr 49 mins All cinemas Like many girls in generations past, Lisa takes a job in retail while she waits…
Review by © Jane Freebury Screening at Palace Electric Rated M, subtitled 4.5 Stars The Insult begins with a petty altercation over a drainpipe that escalates…
Review © Jane Freebury PG, Subtitled Screening at Palace Electric 4 Stars Without fanfare or introduction, a little girl wanders from room to room, looking dazed as…
Review by © Jane Freebury There’s a familiar face in the background in Back to Burgundy (Ce Qui Nous Lie). An actor often seen in French films, but…
Reviewed by © Jane Freebury A few days before Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu passed away last year at the age of 46, he agreed to the release of this…
Review by © Jane Freebury As he is portrayed by the Danish actor, Claes Bang, Christian is assured, sensitive and genial. He is the head curator at a…
Review by © Jane Freebury This lovely, low-key, authentic tale of coming-of-age from Greta Gerwig, one of the most talented actresses in US indie cinema, has its own…
Review by © Jane Freebury There are probably plenty of exceptions to the adage that happy endings belong in fairy tales, so it may not be fair to…
Review by © Jane Freebury There’s a burning intensity to Sweet Country, a tale of revenge in the Australian outback where men turn against each other with guns…
Review by © Jane Freebury If the impression we get is really true, rather than chosen for dramatic effect, Winston Churchill behind the scenes was not the type…
Review by © Jane Freebury Two well known films by writer-director Martin Provost, Seraphine and Violette, are about creative women who suffered for their art. The French filmmaker…
Review by © Jane Freebury It seems there is no end to the ways to express love for van Gogh. Buy the print, wear the jewellery, wear the…
Reviewed by © Jane Freebury A modest 74 minutes long, this new documentary from local filmmaker Jennifer Peedom, is actually one continuous montage of fabulous, indomitable mountains…
Review by © Jane Freebury Smitten by a lovely girl at the local mosque and eager to make his father and family proud, a young man tells a…
Review by © Jane Freebury Not too many monarchs appear on screen in foetal pose, the way the King of Norway does in early scenes in this wartime…
Review © Jane Freebury It is a committed, adventurous actor who takes on the role of a pedophile, even apparently reformed. They couldn’t have been exactly lining up…
4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury Smitten by a lovely girl at the local mosque and eager to make his father and family proud, a young man…
Review © Jane Freebury Is peace between former enemies possible while the horror of war still haunts them? The process certainly gets complicated in the latest…
Review by © Jane Freebury A rag-tag bunch of German soldiers, some barely men. A beautiful beach on the Danish coast, and it’s spring. Now that the war…
Review by © Jane Freebury The films of writer-director Asghar Farhadi are taut, tense, obliquely scripted and immaculately performed. His latest film in similar vein…