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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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SDIFF 2022 Dotty and Soul
Reviewed by Alicia Glass After a cancelled Halloween costume scandal, Jewish entrepreneur Ethan Cox decides to try a Trading Places-like attempt at saving his career with Dotty, the charming black lady who sells snacks at his mothers’ hospital! Who does that anymore?...
SDAFF 2022 Ocean City Monster Building
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Set in 1984, the former Mayor of an upstate New York township is found dead with the body of a young girl also in his car, and his family and friends plus an out-of-town Detective attempt to unravel the mystery. So Sally Lambert (Julie Joy...
SDIFF 2022 Taurus
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Chasing the last days of a rising music star who, while trying to write his next big hit, dives headlong into his own downward spiral of drugs, expectations, and the crushing pressure of super-mega-stardom. So, the lead character Cole is...