Z –aneta, woman strong and strong willed, is a Rom from the Czech Republic. Every day she struggles to find work, earn a little money, and raising a proper daughter. Facing daily discrimination of the Czech “white” she tries to escape his condition, without breaking with his family ties and his identity. Between financial difficulties […]
[critical] Zodiac
Zodiac, the elusive serial killer who plagued the late 60’s and spread terror in the region of San Francisco, was the Jack the Ripper of America. Prodigal in encrypted messages, he sowed the indices, like so many white pebbles, and took pleasure in taunting the press and the police. He was claiming thirty murders, but […]
[CRITICAL] CYCLO (1995)
[CRITICAL] DALLAS BUYERS CLUB
Dallas, 1986. A cowboy homophobe, Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey, THE DEFENCE LINCOLN, MUD), is diagnosed hiv-positive. He has only 30 days to live. In the Face of the ineffectiveness of AZT, the only antiretroviral drug approved in the Us, it launches in the smuggling of drugs, “alternatives” with the help of a transvestite also hiv-positive […]
[critical] Death Sentence
Between his successful career and his family life flourished, the existence of Nick Hume is rather comfortable. Yet, one evening, while he is full of gasoline with his eldest son, the road Nick will cross that of a gang. His son did not survive… Although arrested, the culprit is quickly released. For Nick, there is […]
[CRITICAL] TRANSFIGURATION
Strange and disturbing, Transfiguration combines the vampire film and the social realism in a beautiful way. We thought we had already seen it all in terms of vampire movie. But with TRANSFIGURATION, the first long-feature film, Michael O’shea, the genre deviates into something unexpected. Impossible to catalogue only the film in the fantasy, or horror, […]
[CRITICAL] TRANSPECOS
TRANSPECOS, “it is three guys in a desert “. That’s how a group of festival goers summed up in the film, a few minutes before its screening at the festival of Deauville on September 7, 2016. There is some of that in effect. Unfortunately, in the background, there’s not much else, apart from a lot […]