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  • Machan
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    Machan

    2008-09-03T09:19:00Z

    Dir: Uberto Pasolini. UK-Italy-Germany-Sri Lanka. 2008. 114mins.

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    A Country Teacher

    2008-09-02T16:55:00Z

    Dir: Bohdan Slama. Czech-Ger-Fr. 2008. 113mins.A bittersweet comedy about a gay teacher hiding out in a country school, Bohdan Slama’s follow-up to his award-winning Something Like Happiness feels slightly old-fashioned, going over ground that has already been dealt with in other films. The kind of gay ...

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    Nowhere Man

    2008-08-28T13:00:00Z

    Dir: Patrice Toye. Belgium. 2008. 96mins.A middle-aged bureaucrat drops out and goes to live on an exotic island in Patrice Toye’s flawed update of Michelangelo Antonioni’s The Passenger. Marred by a script which has little interest in its characters and an unrealistic bent where things happen ...

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    Broken Lines (2007)

    2008-08-28T11:09:00Z

    Dir: Sallie Aprahamian. UK. 2008. 113mins.Immersed in the gritty multicultural realities and historical short-circuits of life in the northern suburb of Finsbury Park, Broken Lines is one of the rare films that nails the odd flavour of contemporary London. Like Shane Meadows’ recent Somers Town, it ...