April 2008
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FILM You, the Living (Roy Andersson), 15.
Remarkable and painterly and straight out of Stockholm, this stylised and superbly set sequence of loosely connected scenes can barely claim the title of film with narrative and yet the wanderings of its oppressed and northen light dwelling dominions stalks a life of harsh pleasures eeked out under gloomy skies. vignettes are barely held one to teh next with the occasional appearence of MORE
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FILM: In Bruges (18)
and odd creature this: two irish hitmen are instructed to hole up in the titular belgian town, to await further instructions. the younger, colin farrell fresh from a marathon viewing of father ted, loathes bruges. in fact his loathing turns as we come to understand around a botched hit: the slaying of a priest also claimed a child and colin’s charged performance attests to a man for whom homicide...
