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  Vermiglio 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Dec 2024 2

  Vermiglio bypasses typical portrayals the impact of World War II by focusing on the impact the wars have had on community, in particular on women. Focusing on a tiny Italian Alpine village, it charts the lives of different generations of women. A Sicilian soldier seeks refugee in the village to escape war, Pietro (Gieseppe dde Dominico) and falls for the oldest daughter of the family Lucia, (Martina Scrinzi). As Italian society recovers from the impact of war, the lives of…

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  The Girl with the Needle 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 08 Dec 2024

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Tilva Ros 2010

  ★★★★ Watched 06 Mar 2017

  The thought of a film about idiotic teenage boys would normally fill me with dread. However, this impressive debut is a brilliant coming of age tale of two boys trapped in rural Serbia, a country torn between Western and Eastern values. The film depicts their boredom and lack of motivation to grow up through the various stunts that they undertake; in reality the extreme nature of them is more like self-harm. The cinematography is beautiful and the film manages to…

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  Paradise Now 2005

  ★★★★½ Watched 13 Mar 2017

  In a tense, well acted and scripted affair, Hany Abu-Assad asks us to explore concepts that the Western world are uncomfortable in making. Tossing away the cliche of suicide bombers as cold, vicious animals, Paradise Now explores Israeli-Palestinian politics by presenting Palestinian suicide bombers as ordinary people, without religious fanaticism, merely the situation in that part of the word normalises the behaviour. The film does not legitimise their actions, not judge them in a negative manner.

  I morally struggled with…