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Friday 31st January 2025

UK 2024

Running time: 119 mins

Bird

Director : Andrea Arnold

Film Summary :
Life in the arsehole of England
Film Category
The 2020s
Film Tags

Rated by rogerco, Streamed proj @ home on 31 Jan 2025

Review Summary :
Brilliant and slightly magical


Saturday 4th January 2025

Finland 2023

Running time: 81 mins

Fallen Leaves

Director : Aki Kaurismäki

Film Summary :
Ansa works as a shelf stacker, Holappa in a metal factory. They fail to meet and then meet and fail again. Drink, sackings, ennui, shitjobs, life and romance blossoms.
Film Category
The 2020s
Film Tags

Reviewed by rogerco, Streamed proj @ home on 04 Jan 2025

Review Summary :
Withthe directors unique sparse and allusive style a love story for modern times.

Review of "Fallen Leaves"

Excellent acting by Ansa and Holappa and others. Life in the menial class in Helsinki - zero hours shitjobs, propoganda in the media, drinking and movies going, total alienation.

Shot in the same style as The Other Side of Hope  and is other films



Saturday 21st December 2024

Palestine 2024

Running time: 92 mins

No Other Land

Directors : Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal

Film Summary :
Citizen documentary about life in a West Bank village
Film Category
The 2020s
Film Tags

Reviewed by rogerco, Streamed proj @ home on 21 Dec 2024

Gobsmacked

I was left absolutely speechless at the end. Documents the daily struggle to hold on to their land over 50+ years of aggression and violence by the Israeli state's politically motivated theft and destruction. Film closes at the end of 2023 with the coda informing us that the filmakers have not been heard from for some time...



Friday 13th December 2024

Average rating from 2 reviews

2014

Wild Tales

Director : Damián Szifrón

Synopsis extract :
Six connected (by theme) stories of disconnected lives. ...
Film Category
The 2010s

Reviewed by rogerco, DVD proj @ home on 13 Dec 2024

Watched again by mistake but still good

Watched this again by mistake but still enjoyed it. Took until a few minutes into the second story before I was sure we'd seen it before. Thereafter the knowledge of what was about to happen somewhat reduced the enjoyment but still a good film.



Saturday 7th December 2024

Average rating from 2 reviews

France 2012

Running time: 127 mins

Amour

Director : Michael Haneke

Film Summary :
An elderly couple coping with onset of dementia and stroke and loss of one half in the best possible way
Film Category
The 2010s
Film Tags

Reviewed by rogerco, DVD proj @ home on 07 Dec 2024

Truth not Sentiment

We had no recollection of having seen this before, but we did, in 2013 (see other review)

This time I found it really excellent, brilliantly acted and sympathetically told making the characters strong and avoiding any sentimentality. Maybe own experiences in last 10 years have made me look at it differently and recognise a lot more truth in it - not just a simple story to follow but one that starts to resonate and deeply involve you.



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