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Tag: mothers and sons

Free Chol Soo Lee

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date August 19 2022
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Directors – Julia Ha, Eugene Yi – 2022 – US – Cert. 12a – 83m **** Imprisoned for a murder he did not commit, Korean American Chol Soo Lee became a figurehead for a protest movement, something he felt unable to live up to – out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 19th In San […]

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Mama’s Affair
(A Ma You Zuo
Di Er Ge,
阿媽有咗第二個)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date August 19 2022
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(A Ma You Zuo
Di Er Ge,
阿媽有咗第二個)
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Director – Kearen Pang – 2022 – Hong Kong – Cert. PG – 127m ** A former music business exec tries to get back into the game managing a boy singer while her jealous teenage son takes his exams – out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 19th Essentially a three-hander, this centres around middle-aged […]

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Maquia:
When
The Promised
Flower Blooms
(Sayonara
No Asa
Ni Yakusoku
No Hana
O Kazaro,
さよなら
の朝に約束
の花を
かざろう)

Director – Mari Okada – 2018 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 115m *** Like a virgin. A refugee girl from an immortal race adopts an orphaned human baby to raise as her own until he leaves her as an adult – plays in the Anime season April / May 2022 at BFI Southbank The […]

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The Student
(Uchenik,
Учени́к)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date February 8 2022
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(Uchenik,
Учени́к)

Director – Kirill Serebrennikov – 2016 – Russia – Cert. 15 – 118m **** An obsession with the Bible drives a Russian secondary school student towards dark designs in a film with both religious and political ramifications – out in cinemas on Friday, March 3rd 2017 Late teenager Venya (Pyotr Skvortsov) needs something to believe […]

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My Prince Edward
(Gam Dou,
金都)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date April 2 2021
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(Gam Dou,
金都)

Director – Norris Wong Yee-Lam – 2019 – Hong Kong – Cert. N/C 15+ – 91m ****1/2 A Prince Edward resident starts to question whether marrying her boyfriend as the couple have long planned is really such a good idea – online in the UK as part of Focus Hong Kong 2021 Easter from Wednesday, […]