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Dreaming of Lions
(Sonhar com Leões)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date November 23 2024
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(Sonhar com Leões)
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Director – Paolo Marinou-Blanco – 2024 – Portugal, Brazil, Spain – 85m **** A woman diagnosed with terminal cancer signs up with a corporate programme allegedly aimed at helping people in her situation to humanely end their own lives – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival “Chemo […]

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Renfield

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date April 14 2023
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Director – Chris McKay – 2023 – US – Cert. 15 – 93m ** Guided by American self-help industry ideas of escaping toxic relationships with narcissists, Dracula‘s servant Renfield wants out of his relationship with his master – out in UK cinemas on Friday, April 14th Renfield (Nicholas Hoult) has had enough of working for […]

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Herself

Director – Phyllida Lloyd – 2020 – UK/Ireland – Cert. 15 – 97m **** A woman leaves her abusive and violent husband and builds a new home for herself and her two young daughters – in UK cinemas from Friday, September 10th Things come to a head in the marriage of Gary (Ian Lloyd Anderson) […]

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Herself

A house of her own HerselfDirected by Phyllida LloydCertificate 15, 97 minutesReleased 10 September Herself has a brutal opening in which Sandra (Clare Dunne), a mother of two girls in Dublin, is physically assaulted by her husband Gary (Ian Lloyd Anderson), an incident witnessed by her youngest daughter, Molly (Molly McCann), while her eldest, Emma […]

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