KING OTTO- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “In the summer of 2004, audiences looked on in disbelief as the Greek National Football Team, a country that had never previously won a single match in a major tournament, took down the giants of world football to become the unlikeliest of European Champions.”
3/27/22- Good reviews for this Greek doc. TRDB.
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WOOD AND WATER- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Anke retires from her job at the church in a small town in the Black Forest. She looks forward to reuniting with her children over the summer holidays by the Baltic Sea, at a place where they used to live as a young family, and where she lived her best years.”
3/27/22- Excellent reviews for this German drama. TRDB.
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JOSEP- 2020. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “During the Spanish civil war, Republican fighters fleeing Franco’s dictatorship are imprisoned in concentration camps once they arrive in France. Forced to live in appalling conditions, these refugees barely have access to hygiene, water, and food. Josep tells the story of how Josep Bartoli?, an artist born in Barcelona, and Serge, a sympathetic French camp guard, become friends after Serge slips him some paper to use for his art.”
3/22/22- Good to excellent reviews. TRDB.
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LOVE AFTER LOVE- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Love After Love tells the story of Ge Weilong (Sandra Ma), a young woman from Shanghai who turns up on the doorstep of Madame Liang (Faye Yu), her much richer aunt living the good life in prewar Hong Kong.”
3/21/22- No reviews as yet but it sounds good to me. TRDB.
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AHED”S KNEE- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “A celebrated Israeli filmmaker named Y arrives in a remote desert village to present one of his films at a local library. Struggling to cope with the recent news of his mother’s terminal illness, he is pushed into a spiral of rage when the host of the screening, a government employee, asks him to sign a form placing restrictions on what he can say at the film’s Q&A.”
3/21/22- Fair to good reviews. TRDB.
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COMPARTMENT No 6- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a larger than life Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment No. 6 to face major truths about human connection.”
3/17/21- Very good reviews especially from the critics. TRDB.
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PLAYGROUND- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “In this debut feature by writer-director Laura Wandel, the everyday reality of grade school is seen from a child’s-eye-view as an obstacle course of degradation and abuse.”
3/10/22- Excellent reviews by all for this French drama. TRDB.
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GREAT FREEDOM- 2022. Synopsis by Netflix. “Persecuted for being homosexual, Hans goes right from a concentration camp to jail in postwar Germany. Branded as gay, he encounters hostility from his cellmate, but after repeated incarcerations in the same prison, the two men form an intimate bond.”
3/6/22- Excellent reviews for this German drama. TRDB.
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SERVANTS- 3/1/22. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “In Czechoslovakia, 1980, the totalitarian Communist regime demands allegiance from all its subjects, including the clergy. Servants follows Michal and Juraj, two conflicted novitiates whose seminary is under increasing pressure by the Party to mold its students into satisfactory citizens. With the school on the brink of dissolution, and its head priest a target for blackmail, Michal and Juraj will have to choose between collaborating with the government as informants, or becoming targets of the secret police.”
3/1/22- Excellent reviews for this drama. TRDB.
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THE BURNING SEA 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “In 1969, the Norwegian government announces their discovery of one of the world’s largest oil fields in the neighboring North Sea, launching a prosperous period of offshore drilling. 50 years later, the environmental consequences begin to manifest — a crack has opened on the ocean floor, causing a rig to collapse. ”
3/1/22- Weak reviews. TRDB.
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