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SDIFF 2024 Mr. Blake at Your Service!
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Andrew Blake is a recently widowed British businessman, who finds himself taking on an unexpected job as a butler when he returns to the French manor house in northern France to be closer to the memory of his late French wife. Based on the 2012 novel Completement Crame! (Completely Burnt out!)by Gilles Legardinier, in his feature directorial debut of the film as well, the film is pretty much entirely spoken in French, and subtitled. The manor house folk do make a point...
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San Diego Asian Film Festival 2012 presents The World Before Her
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Director: Nisha Pahuja Rating: 7 Website: The World Before Her Coverage of the women entering the Miss India pageant, and girls being trained in militant Fundamentalist Durga Vahini camps, make for a contrasting film of the changing Hindu...
SDAFF 2012 presents ‘Mekong Hotel’: Find the Pod ghosts
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Studio: Illumination Films Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul Review Rating: 6 Normally, Moxie would start off a review of any given movie with a brief synopsis of the plot and then expound to opinions. I actually can’t do that in this...
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2012 presents Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Studio: Cinediaz Director: Ramona S. Diaz Review Rating: 7 Website: Everyman’s Journey The real life story of how the iconic rock band Journey went on a journey with their brand new Filipino lead singer, Arnel Pineda. So, Arnel Pineda happens...