AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE : YES : WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY NADAV LAPID

 

Director Nadav Lapid’s brilliant,  showy set-pieces present a caricature  of decadence and heartlessness  in a society haunted by 7 October.

YES is a fierce, stylised confrontational  caricature-satire in its sexualised choreography thats almost radioactive  with political pain. With icy …

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THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE : A GREAT BIOPIC

There is nothing more boring  than a biopic. Too often conceived  with fidelity  than creativity,  they follow  generally  the same formula  of  of presenting  a historical figure’s life in straightforward  fashion hitting the identical beats of birth, early years, and …

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SOLO MIO: SWEET SURPRISE

Sweet as cassata, SOLO MIO is a rom com for the mature age that follows Matt Taylor (Kevin James), an earnest fifty something elementary school art teacher whose dream Italian wedding falls apart when his fiancée abandons him at the

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HEART OF DARKNESS : A FILMMAKER’S APOCALYPSE

In the late ’70s, director  Francis Ford Coppola, accompanied  by his family, and crew, travelled to the Philippines to begin work on what could become  Apocalypse Now. But it soon became  one of the most notorious  shoots in cinema …

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