BELOW THE CLOUDS
A black and white portrait of the people living in and around Naples Italy.
The stunning black and white photography gives this film a nostalgic dream like quality. Looking spectacular on na big screen this is documentary that puts us in another time and place. I completely understand why this has played numerous festivals and I really wish I had seen it at the New York Film Festival earlier this year.
MY FATHER'S SHADOW
The British Oscar entry for best international film follows a father and his two sons as they travel from the country into the Nigerian city of Lagos so he can collect money owed. Unfortunately it is the same time as a national crisis
Autobiographical first film is a very heady mix of every type of life that smashes us from pillar to post, exactly like the characters on screen. This is life as lived and not all movie like with all happy or sad.
I really liked the film a great deal, though to be honest I don't think the very end section is needed, except that it ties into the first lines of the film.
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