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SDIFF 2025 : Silent Rebellion (À bras-le-corps)

by moxie | Oct 23, 2025 | drama, Events, Foreign, Historical, Movies

Reviewed by Alicia Glass San Diego International Film Festival 2025 Set in neutral Switzerland in 1943, the story of teenage servant girl Emma, and her private struggles inside her restrictive Protestant community. Despite the beautiful, wide sweeping shots of Swiss mountains and flowering fields, the entire film feels very stifled and boxed-in. Which of course echoes and expounds on the repressed feelings Emma (Lila Gueneau) endures on the daily, the rage and the sorrow and the...

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SDIFF 2022 Armageddon Time

by moxie | Nov 2, 2022 | drama, Events, Historical, Movies

Reviewed by Alicia Glass Set in the early 80’s, with roots stemming from director James Gray’s personal history, comes a story of the ties that bind, and gag, family and the generational pursuit of the American dream. Meet Paul Graff (Banks Repeta), artist and...