A blissful antidote to the barrage of shallow, lazy, formulaic biopics copied and pasted onto our screens in recent years.
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Two Days, One Night 2014
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
A gripping hour and a half display of the ruthlessness of modern capitalism. In the film, factory worker – Sandra, has to begrudgingly ask her colleagues one by one to sacrifice a €1000 bonus promised to each of them if Sandra is expended from the company.
Despite the repetitive structure of the narrative (Sandra going round to all fifteen co-worker’s homes) the film is still pretty tense and definitely captivating (also down to Dardenne’s no-nonsense editing and a punchy script).…Translated from by
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Christine 1987
In an English suburban town so dull that all anyone can talk about is a party on Friday night, which never actually takes place. All the houses seem to be empty, and crashed cars sit idle on driveways. In this town a group of kids are heavily addicted to injecting heroin. The transportation, exchange and taking of the drug is executed with such little emotion that it almost seems banal, and by the end of the film it may even…
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