The Balkan Cowboy
Croatian film-maker Dragana Jurišic returns to the Wild East of her war-torn childhood in ‘The Balkan Cowboy’, a charmingly quirky and deeply personal love letter to a lost pioneer of low-budget westerns.
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Author: Stephen Dalton
Skateboarding is Not for Girls
Balkan writer-director Dina Duma’s prize-winning second feature ‘Skateboarding is Not for Girls’ wraps a quietly angry teen-girl empowerment message inside sweet but familiar coming-of-age tropes.
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I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
Director Clio Barnard’s engaging, bittersweet Cannes prize-winner ‘I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning’ depicts a lively bunch group of working-class friends as they enter the stormy seas of adulthood.
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Amarga navidad
El icónico veterano español del cine Pedro Almodóvar ofrece más dolor que gloria en Amarga Navidad, un drama semi-autobiográfico y autocrítico -aunque de forma suave y delicada- en la etapa tardía de su carrera.
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Bitter Christmas
Veteran Spanish screen icon Pedro Almodóvar delivers more pain than glory in ‘Bitter Christmas’, a semi-autobiographical and gently self-critical but fairly slight late-career drama.
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