The mother and daughter relationship at the heart of Copacabana is not a million light years away from the dynamic explored in the British television
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Film review – The Tree (2010)
The tree that the film takes its title from is a giant Moreton Bay Fig tree, situated next to the family home on the edge
Film review – Farewell (2009)
It is Moscow, 1981, and disillusioned KBG agent Sergei Gregoriev (played by acclaimed Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica) starts to smuggle top-secret documents out to the
Film review – The Hedgehog (2009)
Adapting the much-loved novel The Elegance of the Hedgehog, written by philosophy professor and French novelist Muriel Barbery, was always going to be tricky. The
Film review – Mademoiselle Chambon (2009)
Infidelity is such a common theme in French cinema and yet Mademoiselle Chambon, the latest film by French writer/director Stéphane Brizé, still manages to feel
Film review – The Concert (2009)
This French made film is part farce, part Blues Brothers style putting-the-band-back-together film and part heist-type film. At the centre of The Concert is Andreï
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