Film Reviews Blog

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Sunday 28th June 2020

UK 2019

Running time: 97 mins

Sorry We Missed You

Director : Ken Loach

Film Summary :
Life in the zero-hours contract 'gig' economy
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Rated by Roger, DVD proj @ home on 28 Jun 2020




Saturday 13th June 2020

Australia 2018

Running time: 131 mins

The Nightingale

Director : Jennifer Kent

Film Summary :
Tasmania, 1825, young woman pursues British officer to avenge the murder of her family
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Rated by Roger, DVD proj @ home on 13 Jun 2020




Thursday 4th June 2020

UK 1953

Running time: 81 mins

Turn the Key Softly

Director : Jack Lee

Film Summary :
Three women released from prison (Holloway) on probation - their first day of freedom brings varying fortunes.
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Reviewed by Roger, Streamed proj @ home on 04 Jun 2020

Review of "Turn the Key Softly"

A Southbank Classic Film Recommendation



Monday 1st June 2020

Japan 2015

Running time: 128 mins

Our Little Sister

Director : Hirokazu Koreeda

Synopsis extract :
3 sisters share a house in city, estranged father dies and at the funeral they meet their half ...
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Rated by Roger, Streamed proj @ home on 01 Jun 2020




Saturday 9th May 2020

2018

Leave No Trace

Director : Debra Granik

Synopsis extract :
Father and daughter (13) for reasons unexplained have been living wild in a national park (in ...
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Reviewed by Roger, DVD proj @ home on 09 May 2020

Review of "Leave No Trace"

It all hinges around the relationship between the father and daughter - the backstory is left almost entirely to imagination (the girl doesn't remember her mother and the father doesn't reveal why he is damaged). Once they are in care (together) she starts to see another world, but eventually the father finds the tappings of civilisation too much and takes them out. For a while it might be going to work, but dad has an accident in the woods whilst going for food and the girl finds a woodland community where they can recover - in the end he still can stick, and she has to make a choice.