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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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SDLFF 2012 presents Agnus Dei: Lamb of God

by moviemoxie | Mar 25, 2022 | Documentary, drama, Events, Historical, horror, Movies

Jesus is a young man attempting to find the Priest who abused him as an altar boy at 11, and gain some measure of closure.

SDLFF 2012 presents Labios Rojos (Red Lips)

by moviemoxie | Mar 25, 2022 | Adventure, comedy, drama, Events, Fantasy, Foreign, Movies, Romance

Successful Ad-man Ricardo has the perfect life with his wife Blanca and two children – until the roof falls in, Ricardo can’t “rise” to the occasion, and it all culminates with hilarious consequences.