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Saturday 17th December 2022

UK 2021

Running time: 87 mins

Bank Job

Film Summary :
A documentary about an art project to buy up junk debt and destroy it

Reviewed by rogerco, Streamed proj @ home on 17 Dec 2022

Review Summary :
A creative documentary

An Entertaining Job

Not really a film about money and how debt works - although that came in to it. The focus was more on the mechanics of the creative project - printing and selling your own "money" and using the proceeds to support the local community by donating to local causes and symbolically destroying some local debt by blowing up a van full of a million bits of paper saying "debt"

More a film about filmmaking than an explanatory documentary - ultimately the explosion is just a film-makers trope (wank?) but quite entertaining along the way - lots of good real people doing stuff outside the system.




Wednesday 7th December 2022

USA 2017

Running time: 88 mins

Lucky

Director : John Carroll Lynch

Film Summary :
Old man in Arizona small town
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Reviewed by rogerco, DVD proj @ home on 07 Dec 2022

Review Summary :
Pretty dull

Luckily its not too long

Really nothing much happens. We just see some days in the life of an old man living independently and some of the people around who support him despite his slightly cantankerous nature.

I guess the yanks like it as a portrait of rugged individualism persisting until ner the end of life. Its unrealistic and tedious.




Saturday 26th November 2022

France 2016

Running time: 66 mins

My Life as a Courgette

Ma vie de Courgette

Director : Claude Barras

Film Summary :
Also known as My Name is Courgette which makes more sense as a title. A better translation of the french title would be My Life As Courgette without the 'a'

Rated by rogerco, Streamed proj @ home on 26 Nov 2022

Review Summary :
Sometimes keeping things simple is best



Saturday 19th November 2022

France 1985

Running time: 101 mins

Vagabond

Director : Agnes Varda

Film Summary :
A young drifter's story through the rural South of France told by those who encountered her.
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Rated by Roger CO, DVD proj @ home on 19 Nov 2022




Sunday 13th November 2022

France & Argentina 2021

Running time: 90 mins

Azor

unlisted director

Film Summary :
Swiss private banker visits Argentina in 1980 to re-establish contact with clients after disappearance of partner in bank.
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Rated by rogerco, DVD proj @ home on 13 Nov 2022

Review Summary :
A bit too observational