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November 2015, vol. 9, number 11
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The Connection
Cedric Jimenez, director · Cinedigm Pages: 1 |
(In French, with English subtitles)
If you were or remain a fan of William Friedkin’s movie, The French Connection (remember that one? Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, and so on and so forth), you may like The Connection, another look at the same drug... |
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Gemma Bovery
Anne Fontaine, director · Music Box Films Pages: 1 |
(In French, with English subtitles)
If you have read Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, you may find this French comedy a laugh, or maybe not. The underlying story is rather clever. Charlie and Gemma Bovery are a British couple, who move to Normandy,... |
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Love At First Fight
Thomas Cailley, director · Strand Releasing Pages: 1 |
(In French, with English subtitles)
Here is another French comedy, but this one is firmly planted in modern times, with more modern sensibilities than Gemma Bovery discussed above. Pity poor Arnaud. A young man who thought his summer, stretched out before... |
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Marie's Mind for Murder: Set 1
Christoph Schnee, director · MHz Networks Pages: 5 |
(In German, with English subtitles)
In this German TV series, Marie Brand works in the police department investigating burglaries, but then she is called to help on a puzzling homicide, where clearly her talents are more fully engaged. She is brilliant at deductive thinking... |
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Zero Motivation
Talya Lavie, director · Zeitgeist Films Pages: 1 |
(In Hebrew, wtih English subtitles)
What could be more dull for Zohar and Daffi, two young recruits serving their required time in the Israeli Defense Forces. Stationed in an isolated desert outpost, where nothing ever seems to happen, assigned to an administrative office... |
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