I’M NOT GONNA GIVE UP: CAMP X-RAY

In Guantanamo Bay Prison in Cuba (here an abandoned juvenile prison just outside LA), everyone is behind bars: guards and…we usually say prisoners but the first thing you learn from Camp X-Ray is that the word prisoner is forbidden because in that case they will be subject to the terms of the Geneva Conventions. The movie…

YOUR MOTHER WISHES ARE MY COMAND: FRENCH RIVIERA

L’Homme qu’on Aimat Trop (French Riviera for the London Film Festival) is for sure a little appealing movie for an audience far from la Cote Azure. André Téchiné thriller is a re-creation of the Nièce Casino war in a mix of crime drama, love story and widow mother/daughter melodrama. Renée La Roux (a wonderful silver-haired Catherine…

He is a good boy, he is a criminal: BYPASS

Duane Hopkins ByPass is a movie about a world so far from the one we’re used to see on screen to seem almost unreal. ByPass is a story about youth, but not the happy-green British youth; this movie is about the other youth, the marginalized one. Tim (talented rising star George MacKay, Private Peaceful, Pride,…

YOU ARE JUST A PIECE OF MEAT: ’71

Story of a young squaddie lost on the street of Belfast during the Troubles, ’71 (9 BIFA nominations), the new Yann Demage (Top Boy) movie is a thriller based in an almost Apocaliptic Belfast, even if we are in the 1970. The RUC house to house search becomes a conflict that also involves women and…

THE BEST GODDAM JOB I’VE EVER HAD: FURY

David Ayer‘s gripping tank drama FURY is set in Germany in April 1945 during Hitler’s Total War and follows the battle hardened crew of a Sherman tank as the Allies make their final push to defeat the Nazis. The movie starts with a man on a white fairy-tale horse who emerges from a bank of…