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  • Taurins Senior

    ★★★★½

  • Schön, dass es Dich gibt

    ★★★★

  • Dream Factory

    ★½

  • Hot Dog Stand

    ★★★★

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  • Taurins Senior

    Taurins Senior

    ★★★★½

    Gunars returns to Riga to look after his ill Father. Instead of documenting his prolonged stay, he creates a sarcastically fictionalised and hard-to-define personal rollercoaster film, constructed from home videos, reinvented moments, funny improvisations, bright memories, social media interventions, and occasional observational footage accompanied by a written monologue. Real-life situations blend into scripted scenes and wicked interpretations in this snappy comical family diary.

  • Schön, dass es Dich gibt

    Schön, dass es Dich gibt

    ★★★★

    Since husband Ludwig is sitting shortly before the 20th wedding anniversary, a blond, very, very young girl at his side, and to his wife Jackie: "I'd like to make it easy for you, for example, I say, it's not up to you, there I am but I'm a bad liar." It's over and Jackie boldly begins a new life. A very entertaining comedy.

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  • Monsieur Taurins

    Monsieur Taurins

    ★★★★

    This quiet — and at times intimate — character study successfully reproduces a substance-over-style, low-budget documentary tone to examine the life of its curious protagonist, Gunar Taurins (played with restrained eclecticism by Gundars Abolins). When Gunar travels to France, hired to find a suitable property for a wealthy friend’s new home, his impulsive, bumbling habits and uncanny ability to run into bad luck leads him into crossing paths with a string of unusual characters who are just as flawed —…

  • The Last Soviet Movie

    The Last Soviet Movie

    ★★★★

    An absurdist look at a modern man's great grandfather and the role he played during the Russian Revolution.