The Quiet Room The Quiet Room is a flawlessly acted and perfectly realised Australian film about a seven-year-old girl’s emotional response to the complicated small world that she lives in. The story is told totally from the girl’s perspective by writer and director Rolf de Heer. He takes us into her imagination — a place […]
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The Apostle With great empathy and total respect, writer and director Robert Duvall has created a highly engaging drama about the fall and redemption of a Pentecostal preacher from Texas. Unlike other screen caricatures of revival evangelists, The Apostle captures the man in full with both his flaws and his finer points. After his wife […]
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Seven Years in Tibet The key to being born again, receiving enlightenment, or undergoing a spiritual transformation is to step aside from the ego. All religious traditions teach this truth. In Seven Years in Tibet Brad Pitt stars as Heinrich Harrer, a cocky and egocentric Austrian mountaineer. His thirst for fame leads him to abandon […]
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In the Company of Men In the Company of Men is the scariest horror film of 1997. It revolves around the polluted hearts of two white-collar executives. Chad (Aaron Eckhart), an angry young man, and Howard (Matt Malloy), his mild-mannered friend, are working on a six-week project at a branch office in another city. Since […]
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Molom a Legend of Mongolia Molom a Legend of Mongolia is a spellbinding movie filmed in the Republic of Mongolia by writer, director, and producer Marie Jaoul de Poncheville. Yonden, an eight-year-old boy who was abandoned by his father, has been living in the wilderness with a pack of wolves. He is adopted by Molom, […]
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The Full Monty Gaz (Robert Carlyle) and his best friend Dave (Mark Addy) are unemployed steelworkers in the economically depressed English town of Sheffield. They feel like they’ve been consigned to the scrap heap of life. Then Gaz comes up with a scheme to make some money and to restore their self-esteem. They’ll take it […]
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Gabbeh An exquisite visual smorgasbord, Gabbeh’s fantastical inclinations are well-served in Kalari’s cinematic hands. They create a storybook portrait of Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s idyllically-realised world. One that is both grounded and prone to flights of fancy. It’s a fairytale imagining of a modern domestic drama, in which the traditional mixes with the contemporary in a unique […]
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Shall We Dance The fourteenth-century Catholic mystic Catherine of Siena once observed: “You have nothing infinite except your soul’s love and desire.” Shall We Dance is about just that.
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Le Huitieme Jour: The Eighth Day Le Huitieme Jour: The Eighth Day is about two worlds colliding – the one of a yuppie motivational speaker on the fast track, the man Harry, and the other of another man, Georges, who has Down’s Syndrome. The cinematography alone is so fresh and exciting. As a visual feast […]
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Good Will Hunting We all long for a soul friend, someone who will cherish the secret signature of our individuality. The emotionally troubled protagonist of Good Will Hunting is blessed with three soul friends who enable him to find his place in the world.
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